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REPORT ON LEE HARVEY OSW.\LD'S TRIP TO MEXICO CITY.

Document Info: mation
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LEE HARVEY OSWALD THE Cl/..AND MEXICO CITY

00/00/1978
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CIA, METHODOLOGY, PHOTOS) JRVEILLANCE
SOVIET EMBASSY

OSWALD, LEE, POST-RUSSIAN l’ERIOD, TRAVEL, TRIP TO
MEXICO

CUBAN EMBASSY

REPORT
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OUTLINE: LEE HARVEY OSWALD, THE CIA AND MEXICO CITY.
‘Part I. I.-

I. Introduction. | 9 i 437 2.

A. Issues Addressed. (p.. 1.)

B.. Differences Between the Warren Commission In-
vestigation of Lee Harvey Oswald's Activities |
in Mexico City and the House Select Committee
on Assassinations' Investigation. (p. 3. >

C. Conclusions. (p. £.)

D. Structure and Relevancy. (p. 10. )

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II. Central Intelligence Agency surveillance Operations
in Mexico City in Set tember and October 1963.

A. Photographic Surveillance Operations Aimed

, at the Cuban Diplematic Compound. (p. 12.)

1. Introduction. (p. 12.)

2. Physical Positioning of Surveillance Bases
and Targets. ‘p. 12.)

3. Objectives of Operation and Scope of Coverage
Provided. (p. 13.)

4. Disposition of Production from the Operation.

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Photographic Surveillance Operations Aimed at.

the Soviet Diplomatic Compound. (p. 31.)

1. Introduction. p. 31.)

2. Physical Posit:.oning of Surveillance Bases
and Targets. (jp. 31.) .

3. Objectives of Operation and Scope of Coverage _—
Provided. (p. 33.)

4. Procedure and '‘iming Involved in Processing

: Production from the Operation. (p. 45.)

5. Responsibility for the Operation. (p.47.)

6. Coordination 0: Photographic and Electronic
‘Surveillance Operations. (p. 52.)

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; a 1. Existence. (p. 53.)
| 2. Responsibility. (p. 53.)
, ; -. a. General. (93. 53.)

; b. Analysis anil Reporting of Information

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; So OB Telephone Lines covered. a (p., 56.)

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4. Production.from Operation. (p. 58.)
a. Types. (p. 59.)
b. Handling Procedures. (p. 59.)
(1) Resuma. (p.. 59.)
(2) Cuban Tapes.-. (p. 60.)
(3) Soviet Tapes. (p. 61.)
(a) General Handling. (p. 61.)
(b) Retention and Reuse of Tapes. (p. 62.)
(c) English Language Conversations.
(p. 64.)
(d) Handling by Tarasoffs. (p. 66.)

- {e) Expedited Procedure for English
Language Coversations or other
Conversations of Special Interest.
{(p. 67.)

’ (£) Handling in the Station. (p. 70.)

(g) Format of Transcripts. (p. 71.)
c. ; Voice Comparisons. (p. 72.)

TIT. Information About Lee ‘Harvey Oswald's Stay in Mexico
that was Known by the CIA Mexico City Station Prior .
: to the Assassination of John Kennedy and the Sources
@ - of that. Information.

_ A. Information that was Available. (p. 72.)

1. Information Available to the Mexico City
Station from Electronic Surveillance Aimed
at' the Soviet Consulate and Military Attache’ Ss
Office. (p. 73.)
a. September 27, 1963, Friday. (p. 73.)
b.: September 28, 1963, Saturday. (p. 76.) .
c. October 1, 1963, Tuesday.. (p. 78.)
d. October 3, 1963, Thursday. (p. 79.) .

2. Information ‘Available to the Mexico City CIA
Station from CIA Headquarters. (p. 80.)

3. Information Available to the Mexico City Station
from Electronic Surveillance Aimed at the Cuban
Diplomatic Compound. (p.. 81.)

4. Information Available to the Mexico City Station
from Photographic Surveillance of the Soviet and

. Cuban Diplomatic Compounds. (p.°81.) |
“U4 5. Possibility that Additional Information from the
s 7 Electronic Surveillance on the Soviet. Compound
“ , oo was Available to the Mexico City Station. (p. 82.)

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l. &. Possibility that the CIA Photosurveillance
Obtained a Photcgraph of Lee Harvey Oswald.
(p: 90.)
a. Missing Materials. (p. 91.)
b. Likelihood that the Photosurveillance
; Operation would have Missed Oswald. (p- 91.)
: c. Reports of the Existence of a Photograph.
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(1) Phillip Agee Allegation. (p. 93.)
(2) Daniel Stanley Watson Allegation. (p. 97.)
. (3) Joseph Burkholder Smith Allegation.
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(5) Statements of Dan Niescuir. (p. 105.)
dad. HSCA Investication of the Possibility that the

Mexico City Fhotosurveillance Operation Produced

: a Photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald. (p. 107.)
Aa (1) Introduction. (p. 107.)

B. iIzformation Connected to Lee Harvey Oswald by the
@ ‘ Mexico, City Statior Prior to the Assassination.
7 i. Introduction. (tp. 115.)

. Information Available from the Soviet Wiretaps
that.was Connected with or involved Lee Harvey
Oswald. (p. 11€.)

. When were the irtercepted Conversations Linked
to Lee Harvey Oswald? (p. 120.)

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; IV. Recoomstruction of the CIA Mexico City Station an Head-

Ga=—ters Actions Pricr to the Assassination of President

Colm F. Kennedy.
i f A. <ntroduction--Cia Interest in and Liaison with FBI
=lloc Embassies in Mexico City. (p. 123.)
j.° En. “kerrative of Mexico City Station Actions Prior to

=ne Assassination. (p. 124.)

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a (2) Investigetion of the Allegations. (p. 108.)

Sregarding Americar. Cityizens in Contact with Soviet

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- The Photograph cf the Mexico Mystery Man. (p. 122.)

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of the Mexico Mystery Man. (p. 178.)

B. Reporting of Infcrmation Concerning Lee Harvey
Oswald from the Electronic Intercept Operation
Aimed: at the Soviet Embassy. (p. 180.)

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C. Silvia Duran. (p. 184.)

VI. Information Not Available at:'the Time of the Warren
Commission Investigation.

A. Silvia Tirado (nee Duran). (p. 191.)
1. House Select Ccmmittee on Assassinations
_ 6/6/78 Interviewo of Silvia Tirado. (p. 191.)
) °2. CIA Informatior Not Available at the Time of -
greet: the Warren Commission Investigation. (p. 194.)
. a. LIRING/3 Allegation. .(p. 194.) _
b. Possibility that Silvia Duran was an Agent
. for either Zmerican, Mexican or Cuban
‘Intelligence. (p. 197.)
(1) Was Silvia Duran an Agent, Asset, or
, Source for Mexican or American Intel-
ligence: (p. 197.)
(2) Was Silvia Duran a Cuban Intelligence
Agent? (p. 201. )
3. The Cubans. (p. 202.)
1.. Eusebio Azcue lopez. (p. 202.)
2. Alfredo Miraba] Diaz. (p. 205.)

'€. Elena Garro de Paz. (p. 206.)
i. Elena's Story zs Reported October 5, 1964.

‘ (p. 206.)
2. October 12, 1964, CIA Memo for the Record.
(p.' 208.) ;
_ 3. November 24, 1°64, CIA Informant Report.
; (p. 209.)

‘4. November 24, 1964, Elena Garro Meeting -with
Mexico City Lecial Attache Officers. (p. 210.)

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5.. Charles Thomas Meeting with Elena Garro on
December 10, 1965. (p. - )
Charles Thomas' Meeting with Elena Garro on
December 25, 1965. (p. 216.)
7. December 27, 1965, Legal Attache Memo to the
United States Ambassador re Elena Garro. (p. 221.)5
. 8. CIA Investigation of Elena's Allegation that
a ; She Created a Disturbance at the Cuban Embassy
H on November 23, 1963. (p. 223.)
; 9. Legal Attache 2/23/66 Memo to the United States
“Ambassador Regarding Elena Garro's Allegation.
(p. 225.)
H . 10. Legal Attache Memo to Winston Scott re Elena's
: Allegation that: She Had Stayed at the Hotel
Vermont from the Day After the Assassination
_ Until November 30, 1963. (p. 225.)
' 11. Charles Thomes' September 30, 1969, Letter to
i ' $tate Departnent and Legal Attache’ s Response.
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: 12. House Select Committee on Assassination's In-
gn, : vestigation cf Elena Garro's Allegations.
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A. Introduction. (p. 240.)

{ : B. Did Lee Harvey Oswald or an Imposter Contact the
{ Cuban and Soviet Consulates in Mexico City? ‘(p. 242.)

C. What were Lee Harvey Oswald's . Activities in Mexico
city? (p. 250.)
Mexico? (p. 259.)

:- Appendix -I: HSCA Procedtral Write-up: Cuba Trip 1. (p. 261. )

1 Appendix II: HSCA Procedural Write-up: Mexico Trip 1.

D. Was Lee Harvey Oswald Alone While He Travelled to —§
(p. 265.)

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Appendix III: HSCA Procedural Write-up: Mexico Trip 2.
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Appendix IV: HSCA Procedural Write-up: Cuba Trip 2.
(p. 287.)

Appendix V: Biography: Elena Garro de Paz. (p. 297.)

Appendix VI: Glossary of: Terms Used in Report. (p. 301.)

Appendix VII: Listing of CIA Documents Cited. (p. 305.)

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ADDENDUM TO FOOTNOTE # 614 OF "LEE HARVEY OSWALD, THE CIA
AND MEXICO CITY.

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ination due to a memorandum from J. Edgar Hoover to the
head of the Secret Service which said:

‘The Central ‘Intelligence Agency advised that

on’ October 1, 1963, an extremely sensitive

source had reported that an individual iden-

i ' tified himself as Lee Oswald, who contacted the

i Soviet Embassy in Mexico City ‘inquiring as to
any messages. Special Agents of this Bureau,
who have conversed with Oswald in Dallas,
Texas, have observed photographs of the indi-
vidual referred to akove and have listened to
a recording of his vcice. These Special Agents

‘are of the opinion that the above-referred-to
individual was not Lee Harvey Oswald.

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PP. 4-5. } The HSCA has determined that this statement .

was Probably based on anc ther FBI memorandum which said:

Inasmuch as the Dallas Agents who. listened to the
‘tape of the conversation allegedly of Oswald
from the. Cuban Embassy to the Russian Embassy in
Mexico and examined the photographs of the visitor
to the Embassy in Mexico and were of the opinion
_, that neither the tape nor the photograph’ pertained |
s to Oswald, I requested Shanklin to immediately
send a photograph of Oswald to our Legal Attache.

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! , Belmont was. reporting the results of a conversation with.

the Special Agent in Charge in Dallas, . Gordon Shanklin,

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Later that same day SAC Shanklin informed the Director
{ that the tape of Oswald's voice had been erased: "It
should be noted that the actual tape from which this
transcript was made has been erased." (Teletype from

SAC Dallas to Director, # 232220, 7:30 P.M. CST,. 11/23/63.

Emphasis in the original.)
The confusion about whether or not there was a tape
‘apparently continued for several days after the SAC in

po Dallas ‘informed the Director that such a tape did not

3 exist. On 11/25/63 the FBI Legat in Mexico City sent a
Cablegram to the director which said: .
@ . . There appears to be some confusion in that no
tapes were taken to Lallas but only typewritten

_ transcripts supplied by CIA, the tapes not being
i available because they had been erased.

(Cablegram # 182 & 183, fF. 2.) oo oe ¢

The FBI was asked to explain the paragraph from the’
| Hoover memorandum quoted above. It responded:

The paragraph appearing'on pages 4 and 5 of the
leterhead memorandum, which is quoted in your
(FBI) request of March 17, 1978, contains some
incorrect informatior regarding a tape recording
of the voice of an irdividual who identified him-
self as Lee Oswald. ; .

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Retrievable information contained in files

of the FBI indicates that this Bureau received
. information derived from transcripts of tape
(3 » .° recordings furnished by another government
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: , tigations. The transcripts indicated that on

i September 28, 1963, and October 1, 1963, the

! voice of an individual identifying himself as

: Lee Oswald was recorded by the other govern-~
ment agency conducting intelligence type inves-.
tigations. Additionally, this government agency

: provided the FBI with photographs of an individ-

: ual who appeared to be an American; these photo-
graphs -being taken by said agency on October 1,
1963.

i It is noted that the FBI never received the
a actual tape recordings from which the transcripts
; were derived,.as the tapes were erased by the
other government agency providing the transcripts....

As a result, no FBI employee ever listened to a
tape recording purporting to contain Lee Harvey
i Oswald's. voice as no tape was ever provided to

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by the Committee recalled listening to any tape recording

purporting to contain a corversation involving Oswald.

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re © INTRODUCTION

A. Issues Addressec

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“investigation into Lee. Harvey Oswald's activities in Mexico City
-has been directed at answering the following questions: .
ae 1) Did Lee Harvey (swald visit the Soviet and
Cuban Consulate: or Embassies in Mexico City?
: - 2) In addition to “he visits which may have been
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yy 7 —_ . 3) Was Lee Harvey Jswald alone in. Mexico City?
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' - - any surveillanc2 operation(s) aimed at the
- — ~ Cuban and Soviet diplomatic missions in.
. Mexico City? If SO, what - kind?
. ay 5) ° What information. if any, about Oswald’ Ss
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| 6) Was the information, if any, in the
possession of the CIA Mexico City
Station reported to the CIA Headquarters
accurately and expeditiously prior to
the assassination? .
7) Was the information in the possession
of the CIA Mexico City Station reported.
. to the CIA Headquarters accurately and
: expeditiously after the assassination?
8) Was the information developed by the .

@ _ CIA in Mexico City communicated to the
Warren Commissicn in an accurate and
expeditious Manrer?

-9) Did the CIA phoio-surveillance of the
Cuban and Soviet. diplomatic compounds in
Mexico City, if such photo-surveillance

; existed, obtain a photograph of Lee

i ; - Harvey Oswald? If so, what became of

that photograph’

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Investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald's
Activities in Mexico City and the House
Select Committee on Assassination's

Investigation.

The’ approach taken by this Committee's investigation
differs from that of the Warren Commission primarily
in terms of scope. The Warren Commission and. the -

se investigative agencies at its disposal went. to
@ . great lengths to establish Oswald's travel -to and
from Mexico, but devoted minimal ‘effort to
evaluating Oswald's contacts with the Cuban and
Soviet Consulates. It is the. conclusion of this
Committee that the Warren Commission correctly
established that Oswald hac traveled to Mexico
City. Hence, this Committee has chosen not to

‘reimvestigate Oswald's travel to and from Mexico City.

Instead, the Committee's approach has been to focus
narrowly an Oswald's contacts with. the Soviet and

Cuben diplomatic. missions -n Mexico City and on

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j Commission that could possibly shed light on
Oswald's activities in Mexico City outside of the
Soviet and Cuban installations.

The Warren Report limited its discussion of. .
Oswald's contacts with the Soviet and Cuban diplomatic
missions to information obtained from Sylvia Duran
and the Cuban Government. i,

i . At one point in the Report the Commission referred

A to other information:

ae . By far-the most important confirmation
; “of Senora Duran's testimony, however, has been
yo . supplied by confidentia sources of extremely high
© reliability available to the United States in
Mexico. The information from these sources
establishes that her te:timony was truthful and
. accurate in all materia respects. The identities
of these sources cannot be disclosed without
destroying their future usefulness: to the
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The Warren Commission d‘d not print anything in
the twenty-six volumes of evidence to support
its statement that Silvia Puran' s testimony was

confirmed by “confidential sources of extremely .

high reliability."

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In an attempt to answer the questions posed by

Lee Harvey Oswald's visit to Mexico City in September

and October of 1963, the House Select Committee on

Assassinations has pursued the following investigative

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Conducted extensive interviews, depositions,
and executive sessicn hearings involving
Central Intelligence Agency personnel;
Interviewed Cuban citizens who could have
knowledge of Oswald's sojourn in Mexico;

Interviewed Mexican citizens who could have

‘knawledge of Oswald s activites and

-ess.ociations while he was in Mexico;

Conmsucted an extensive review of the files
f the Central Inteiligence Agency and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation that

pertain to Oswald aid Mexico City.

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individual indicated that he had

visited the Soviet Consulate at least
once. Other evidence from the CIA .

wiretaps, and witness testimony, indicates

that the indivicual visited the Soviet

and. Cuban Consulates on five or six

different occasions. While the
majority of the evidence tends to’

indicate that this individual was indeed

Lee Harvey Oswald, the possibility that

@ So, someone else used Lee Harvey Oswald's

“name during this time in contacts with
the Soviet and Cuban Consulates cannot
be absolutely dismissed.

2) This Committee has not been able to
determine Lee Harvey Oswald's activities
outside of the Cuban: and Soviet. Embassies

with certainty. There is a report, which

thas not been confirmed, indicating that.
“during his stay in Mexico Oswald attended

a “twist. party" at the home of. Ruben

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‘Silvia Duran. There is-also unconfirmed

evidence which, if true, would indicate

that Oswald spert one night and parts of
two days with a group of pro-Castro
students from tte University of Mexico.
3) There is a report that Oswald may have
been in the company of a tall, thin,
blond-headed mar while in Mexico. This
repant -has not been confirmed. If
true, it is possible that this same
@ _ individual may, cn occasion, have used.
| Oswald's name in dealing with the Cuban
and: Soviet Consulates. The man's. name,
if there was such a man, is not known.

&) On the dates that Oswald was in Mexico,

the CIA had photographic surveillance -
operations which covered entrances to

the Soviet Embassy and the Cuban Embassy —
and Consulate. The CIA atso had electronic
surveillance on telephones in the Soviet
Consulate and ‘Military Attache’ s Office

and Cuban diplomatic compounds. ‘The :

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subject to that surveillance.
5) The CIA's Mexico City Station definitely
knew of Oswald's contacts with both the
Soviet and Cuban diplomatic compounds
and.of his desire to obtain an intransit
visa for travel to Russia via Cuba.
The source of this information was the
electronic surveillance onthe Soviet
ce oo Consulate and Soviet Military Attache's
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6) All information -n the possession of the
- CIA Mexico-City Station was not reported
to CIA Headquar-ers in an accurate and
expeditious manner prior to the- assassination.
7) With the except: on of a few, possibly
| benign, irregularities, and considering
the possibility that not all of the
information ava’ lable to the Station has
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8) With the exception of those areas that
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such as theinformation pertaining to the’

electronic and photographic surveillance -

of the Soviet and Cuban diplomatic

compounds, information developed by

the CIA in Mexico was generally relayed

to the Warren Commission in an accurate

@. | and expeditious manner. — |

| 9) “It is the conclusion of this Committee
that the CIA's photo-surveillance
operations ‘in Mexico City probably

obtained a photograph of Lee Harvey

Oswald entering either or both the
Soviet and Cuban Consulates. The CIA
denies that such a photograph exists.

Hence, the dispostion of. this photograph

is unknown.

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10) The CIA telephore surveillance on the Sov-
jet Embassy taped several calls of a man
“using the name ‘Lee Oswald." These tapes
were retained fcr a routine two week period
and were most likely erased shortly after .

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16 October.1963. These tapes were probably t———

existence at the time of the assassination.

11) The Committee i: aware of the allegations
that Silvia Tirédo de Duran may have been
= an intelligence agent for either the Cubans,
@ Mexicans or Americans. Ms. Duran was pro-
bably never emp oyed by Cuban intelligence.
While there is no direct evidence on the.
question other «han Ms. Duran's denial, the
Committee believes that the circumstantial
evidence that tends to indicate that Ms. —
Duran had a relitionship of some type with
either Mexican ur American intelligence is
of such a nature that the possibility can

not be dismissed.

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D. Structure and Relevancy .

The following report detailing the results

_ of this Committee's investigative efforts regarding

Mexico City is divided into general areas:

1) CIA surveillance operations in Mexico
City during September and October of
1963;

'.2) Information about Lee Harvey Oswald's -

| stay in Mexico City that was known prior
to the assassination; |

3) Reconstruction cf the CIA Mexico City

- Station and Heacquarters activity.
regarding Oswalc prior to the assassination;

4) Mexico city repcrting of information

| after the assassination;

5) Witnesses from the’ Cuban Consulate;

6) . Investigation ot related information
_that. was not aveilable to the Warren
Commission; and

7) Reconstruction of Oswald: S activities

in Mexico city.

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that the first section following is technical in

nature and may -not appear cirectly relevant at

i first blush. But the report js cumulative in nature.
The specific, detailed analyses of the standard
operating procedures. in the first section are
necessary to, and form a partial basis for, the

reconstruction of the Mexico City Station's

"te me ae tnne

handling of the Oswald case. There are many gaps
left by the documentary anc testimonial evidence
e ; concerning the manner in which the CIA’s Mexico .
| “city Station and Headquarters reacted to Oswald's
, presence in Mexico City. A knowledge of the |

. way in which the Mexico City Station operated and
4 the procedures involved in those surveillance

i -  @perations which detected Oswald is valuable in
filling the gaps of the specific case which is the

subject of this report.

I]. Central Intelligence Agency Surveillance Operations

in Mexico City in September and October 1963

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“A. Photographic Surveillance Operations Aimed
at the Cuban Diplomatic Compound :
1. Introduction

The Mexico City Station of the Central

Intelligence Agency mainte ined photographic

‘surveillance on the Cuban diplomatic. compound during

September and.October of 1963.3/ The purpose of

this operation was to get identifiable photographs of

all individuals who visited the Cuban diplomatic

compound. 4/ : ; OO

2. Physical Positioning of Surveillance’

Bases and Targets

The Cuban diplomatic compound covered one

city block in Mexico City between Tacubaya, Francisco

Marquez and Zamora Streets. The entrance to the Cuban

Embassy was located on the corner of Tacubaya and
Francisco Marquez.5/- Next to this entrance on-

Francisco Marquez Street was another entrance for

automobiles. 6/ The entrance to the Cuban Consulate,

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which was in a separate building from the Embassy,
was located on the corner cf Francisco Marquez and
Zamora.7/. The CIA. surveillance post was located

at 149 Francisco Marquez Street.8/ An agent
‘photographed visitors to the Embassy from one

window in the third floor epartment at 149 Francisco.
Marquez Street.9/- .A pulse camera covered the
entrance to the Consulate from a second window in the

‘same third flocr apartment. 10/

3. Objectives of Operation and Scope of

Coverage Provided

One. CIA officer, who claimed to have had a
marginal role ‘in this surveillance operation, remembers
that they had trouble covering both the Cuban

Embassy entrance and the Cunsulate entrance. l/. "The

Cuban Embassy coverage had more sophisticated equipment

“using a pulse camera which fréquently developed
mechanical difficulties."1i/ two former CIA ‘employees
‘who were in Mexico City in 1963 remembered that there

“were two cameras covering “he Cuban diplomatic -

Bove 2hips oa te

. compownd.13/ Ms. Goodpasture, a case officer in the

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Mexico City Station, testified that she could not

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reriember the locations of the two cameras.14/ David

A. Phillips, Chief of the Cuban Section in the Mexico

City Station, testified that the Consulate entrance

was covered along with the Embassy entrance. 15/ Mr.

Phillips was not absolutely ‘sure of his recollection,

but thought that it was possible that the Embassy |

entrance had been covered ty a manned photographic base
a and the Consulate entrance was covered by a pulse
camera. 16/

@ . _ The CIA staff technician: who serviced the

cameras and trained the agents at the CIA photographic -—

i base that covered the Cubar compound was interviewed

by the House Select Commitiee on Assassinations. The

technician stated that he had set up the cameras in

~ the photographic base at the inception of an

. operation in the early 1960's designed to provide 3 Fe
photographic surveillance ‘of the Cuban compound. For
-a@ short time ‘after the. inception of the operation,

the technician had been re: ‘ponsible for maintaining

liaison between the agents inside the base and the

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the technician turned the liaison responsibilities over
to a case officer.17/ He could not remember with
’ certainty the ‘identity of that case officer, but
thought that it may have been(Robert Shaw 18/ The
: technician remembered that the operation had originally.
covered the Cuban Embassy entrance with manually
operated| E Exacta or Leica eiunmera. He said that this
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camera had been set up on a tripod and was equipped
. with a Bal-Scope. 1/ Late", according to the technician,
7 a pulse camera was “installed in this. base> ot ae pulse
eo camera was set up to cover the Consulate entrance, ~
“while the agents continued covering the Embassy
"entrance with the Manual camera ‘the technician could
not remember with certainty when the pulse camera was
installed in the base. The technician told the House
Select Committee on Assassinations that the exact
time of installation could be checked by reviewing the
project files maintained at CIA Headquarters. 20/
The technician remembered quite a few details
about’ how the pulse camera had been set up and how.
. a . it worked. He remembered that. the shutter was: triggered
H Ye ’ by a device attached to a spotting scope. 2 The

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triggering device was activated by changes in light
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intensity 2? The spotting scope was trained on a very

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narrow area of the door latch of. the Cuban Consulate

‘. entrance. The camera itself covered a much broader

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field than the spotting scope: The camera was set up-

so as to make sure that a person triggering the camera

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by passing between the ‘spotting scope and its target,

j the door latch, would be photographed from the waist

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@ I _ | photographic basehouse serviced his own cameras, and |
developed the film and made contact prints in the
basehouse. 23/ The agent. covering the. Embassy entrance.
kept a log corresponding to the photographs taken. 24/

7 The project files for this operation bear out

- ‘the ‘technician’ s recollections. An examination of these’

files by the House Select Committee on Assassinations

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revealed several of the technician's monthly reports.
-An examination of the chronalogical file of dispatches
passing between CIA Headquarters and the Mexico City
Station turned up one additional. monthly report that

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dispatch was. made available to the Committee on

20 November 1978. The report in the dispatch

chronology covers the period of 1 September to

30 September 1963. 25/ The dispatch reports that on

23 September 1963 the agent who ran the Cuban

photographic basehouse callad the technician into the

basehouse to discuss the layout of the Cuban

Consulate.26/ The entrance to the Cuban Consulate had

been closed in 1961 due to iarassment and stink

Hot bombings.27/ A few days prior to the 23rd, the Consulate

r } had once again opened its door to the public. Prior
to this” reopening of. the Coisulate door, the photography

agent had limited his coverige tothe main Embassy
gate.28/ - He used an Exacta camera with a Bal- “Scope

j with a 30- power eyepiece. - The dispatch reported,

| however, from the position he had to cover the main. gate,

; oe he could not cover the new1/ reopened Consulate

j - entrance. 29/ The base agent told the technician that at.

that time, ‘approximately seventy percent of all the

Visitors to the Cuban compo ind were using the ‘Embassy

entrance and the ‘remainder ised ‘the Consulate entrance. 30/

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i The technician discussed this problem with the case

7 ‘officer for the project, Robert Shaw-31/ Mr. Shaw

; asked the technician to-ade additional photographic
coverage to the basehouse: so as to cover the

Consulate door.32/ On 26 ceptember the technician tested

, equipment for use in the bz sehouse.33/ The dispatch

goes on to say:

On the morning of 2; September, PARMUTH
installed the VLS-2 Trigger Device at the
LIERODE basehouse ard used the 500 mm
lens issued with this system, one 400 mm
Telyt, one reflex hcusing to be used with
re , the Telyt adapted tc fit the Robot Star
ry / camera, one. Robot Siar Camera, one solenoid
a release for mounting and triagering the
Robot Star camera, one Kodak.-100 adapted
for single or burst type exposure, one sole-
noid release to be used with the K-100.
one 152 mm f/4 Cine Ektar Lens, and tv0.
additional tripods. say ,

The photography. agent was instructed to test.

each-camera for four days. The report says that the

results of these test days will be forwarded to the ~
‘Technical Services Division at Headquarters as soon
‘as they become available. 3/

On 7 November 1963 the Mexico. City Station
filed a report on the functioning of the pulse
{ Pe —_ camera. 36/ This dispatch is referenced to

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, . VLS- 2 triggering device had been performitig ‘well with
“Little false triggering. The 500 mm lens was
replaced with a 6-inch lens so as to obtain. wider
coverage of the Consulate door. 38/ During the first
two weeks that the pulse camera was in operation,
the VLS-2 triggered the camera anytime that anyone
entered-or left the Consulate door. This dual
photography used an excessive amount of film,so the
base agent adjusted the VLS-2 so that it only
7 r , _ photographed people leaving the Cuban compound by
. . the Consulate door. 3a/ The base agent used "the
K-100 camera with. tee 152 mm Jens for one. day, end
turnetigin 10 fee (sic) of 16 mm film."40/ Samples
of the photos taken “On that day" with the camera are
enclosed with the dispatch. 41/ _ The Robot. Star camera that
“was placed in the base on September 27 broke down after
3 , four days of operation and. was replaced with a second
Robot Star camera.42/ This Robot Star broke down after
‘five days of operation. At the time of this

‘dispatch in November, a ‘Robot Star, camera was in-

Pars

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were also sent with this d:spatch.44/ Hence, between

“September 27, 1963 and November 7, 1963, at least three,
“and possibly four, cameras were used in the photo base.
with the VLS-2 automatic t-iggering device. On the
27th, the photo-technician installed two cameras, the
K-10 and the first Robot star, with the VLS=2
“triggering device. 45/ The K-100 was used for one
_ day.46/ The first Robot Scar worked for four days;
a second Robot Star worked for five days .47/ On 11/7/63

‘a Robot Star was in operation at the base.48/ It is

@: not clear whether the Robot Star which was working

at the time of the November dispatch was a third
camera or one of the earli2r ones which could have
been repaired. -In any eveat, the Station. asked that
io . a new camera be sent to reolace the Robot Star.49/
| On June 1964 the CI\ Mexico City Station sent
a cable to Headquarters alerting them that they were
sending up the negatives From the pulse camera coverage.

of the Cuban Embassy .50/ All available negatives

and five. packages of undeveloped film were sent to

Ron

Headquarters by transmittal manifest #252572.51/

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The cable apologizes for tie delay in sending the
negatives caused by "consolidation and dating.” 52/
The cable suggests that. Hesdquarters retain possession
‘of the negatives and inforns Headquarters that the
negatives will be forwarded to them on a regular
basis. 53/

-. A transmittal manifest is "unaccountable." 54).
That means that the document and the material it
transmits is not made part of the record and is, there-
fore, unretrievable. 55/

The CIA made the f-hoto-technician's monthly
port for December available. to the Committee on 16 Novem-
ber 1978. 56/ On the morring of 17 December 1963, a |

35 mm Sequence camera was installed in the base house wtth

the VLS-2 trigger device. 57/ The installation of this.
Sequence caméra was probably in response to the request
for a replacement camera in HMMA~22433.

On 22 June 1965.tie CIA Mexico City Station sent

a dispatch to Headquarter; to familiarize them with the

details of the pulse camera operation. 58/

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This dispatch is intended to familiarize
Headquarters with the details of the Pulse
Camera operation in Mexico City, which was
mounted in December 1963 and is targeted
against the (Cuban) Embassy and Consulate.59/
The dispatch goes on to report that a technician from.
Headquarters brought a pulse camera to Mexico City in.
mid=December 1963, installed and tested it, and
instructed the technician resident. in Mexico City and
the base agent in the use and maintenance of the camera.60/
| On the basis of HMMA-22307, HMMA-22433 and MEXI

9940, the Committee believes that it is probable that

@ ‘the pulse camera was in operation on the days: that
. . Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Cuban Consulate. This
Committee requested the photographs produced by the
pulse camera by the project's cryptonym on 22 June 1978.
The CIA informed a House Select Committeeon Assassinations ,

reséarcher on 7/20/78 that the cryptonym did not

refer to a photographic prcject.61/ A more specific

request for the photographs was made on 21 July 1978.62/

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Win Scott's safe at the tine of his death,63/ addressed

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said, in part:

First, while. adnittedly there are contra-
dictions in the Agency's written records,
these records nevertheless suggest that an
impulse camera was ‘n operation when Oswald
visited the Cuban Enbassy. Such a camera
would have automatically been triggered
to photograph any person entering the Embassy.
: In addition, it has been determined by this
i .--.« Committee that Oswa'd entered and exited
i . oc s+) from the Cuban and soviet compounds on at |
: least five separate occasions, resulting: in
a total of ten oppovtunities during which
Oswald could have been photographed by CIA
surveillance camera:. The existence of an
Agency photograph of Oswald has been further
corroborated by CIA personnel both in Mexico
oo ; City and at Agency readquarters who claim to.
i . have seen this mate-jal.

Finally, on October 6, 1978, a manuscript
; written by the late Win Scott; former Chief
: of Station of the CIA's Mexico City Station,
i oo was reviewed by a staff member of this Commit-
i tee. While the criticism can be offered that
; ' $cott's manuscript as not yet been established
as a true record, r2levant portions of this
: ; manuscript do suggest that the contents are-
accurate and that pnotographs of Oswald’ were
“dn fact obtained by the CIA's Mexico City sur- -
veillance operations. At page 273 of the
manuscript, Scott wrote:

f : These visits and conversations are

not heresay; for persons watching these
embassies photographed Oswald as he.
entered and left each one; and clocked the
time he spent on each visit. The
conversations are also known to have taken:
place, including the one in which he told the

Soviet to whom he was talking that he a

Spey ee - should have heard, received a message, from

bo, the Soviet Embassy in. Washington, indicating -

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| obviously that z Soviet Embassy official
in Washington hed offered to help
Oswald.

Scott's comments are a source of deep concern

to this Committee, ior they suggest your
Agency's possible w' thholding of photographic
materials highly re evant to this investigation.

Therefore, the Committee reiterates its
request of May 2, including but not limited to-
——"" any and all photographs in the CIA's possession
of Lee Harvey Oswald resulting from CIA
surveillance operations directed against the
Soviet and Cuban Emoassies and Consulates in
Mexico City.- In adiition, the Committee
requests a detailed explanation regarding the
withholding of any ind all photographs in the
CIA's possession of Oswald resulting from
: CIA surveillance op2rations directed against
@ , the Soviet and Cuban Embassies and Consulates
in Mexico City.65/ |

The CIA responded to this letter on 25 October
1978.66/ The-CIA informed the Committee that it was
their belief that the pulse camera was not in

. operation during September of 1963.67/

First, there was no pulse camera...opposite
the entrance to the Cuban Consulate until |
December 1963...In fact, there had been no
photographic coverage of the Consulate
entrance prior. to the visit of Lee Harvey
Oswald to Mexico City...The Consulate -
entrance had been closed for some time, and.
after it was reopered the 27th of September
was scheduled as tte day for installation
. . of photographic eqiipment for its coverage...

i ot _-“*Difficulty was experienced in the installation
Bf, : ’ cand the technician: had to machine a part for

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the equipment...The technicians probably
had to make the part in question. On that
date, or at some date not long afterwards,
there was test photography of the entrance...
Various difficulties were experienced with

the equipment, whic seems eventually to have
been resolved by installation of the pulse
camera in December 1963. There is no question
about the sequence set forth above.68/

~ HMMA- 22307, definitely reports the installation
of the two cameras and a V:S-2 trigger device on
27 September 1963.69/ But the cameras did not
function smoothly.70/ HMM4-22433 reported that the
K-100 camera broke down after one day's operation.71/

It was replaced with the first Robot Star, which had

also been installed on September 27. The first Robot

Stay broke down four days after its installation: 72/

A second Robot Star broke down after five days of
operation.73/ A Robot Star was working on 7 November
1963, when HMMA-22433 requested that Headquarters send
a replacement camera to Mexico.74/ In all likelihood,
that request was filled with the installation of the

Sequence camera on'17 December 1963 detailed in

HMMA-22726.75/ Under this interpretation of the

documents, the operation would have gone into continuous —

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; operation jn mid-December 1963 as claimed by the CIA.
But the first pulse camera was set up -on Friday,
September 27, 1963. The documents do not specify the
days that the original cameras functioned. HMMA-22307

says:
(The. base agent) was requested to test
the Robot Star Camera for four days and the
K-300 for another four cays. 76/

HMMA-22433 Says:

. (The base agent) used the K-100 with a 152 mm
: Jens for one day, turning in 10° fee (sic) of
’ Cos 16 mm film...The Robot Star and the Telyt
— ~ 400 mm lens are now being used with the VLS-2.
. . on this: project...The Robot Star camera which’
@ oo - was given to (the base agent) with the VLS-2
broke down after days of photographing.
(The technician) replaced this with another
- Robot.. Five days later the second camera
failed to advance properly.77/

This Committee believes that it is reasonable to assume
that the base agent started using the equipment
immediately after it was installed. 78/ Hence, the one
‘day that the K-100 was used would have been either

the 27th (the day it was installed), the 28th (a
Saturday) or the 30th (the following Monday) « It

is also reasonable to assume that the Robot Star. was |
put into action. the day of, or the day. following, the’

Dt ‘breakdown of clas Hicat | hig camera, _ worked for four
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days. So the Consulate was probably the subject of
photographic surveillance trom 27.September to.
] October, assuming that the five days of coverage from

the original cameras started on the day of installation

and ran continuously, except for Sunday, ‘September 30th.

— The base agent deve oped the film from the 7
pulse camera and turned it over in negative form to
: his contact.79/ The film was probably routinely

sent to Headquarters. $0 .

The technician who set up the cameras in the.
@ _ base house said that the. orjective of the operation

was to get identifiable photographs of all visitors

to the Cuban compound. 81/ The goals” of the “Operation .

were spelled out in the 1966 Project Renewal request.

Its original objectives, still current,

include furnishing photographic coverage during
daylight hours ‘of the Embassy and Consulate

entrances...82/ -
Even though this was the stated objective, Ann
Goodpasture testified that she was not sure, but
“thought. that the coverage of the Cuban Consulate and

‘Embassy would. have been ccntinuous only during office

; i ; hours. 83/ This was also the, recollection of David

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Phillips.84/ During September, October and November

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from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.n.3; the Embassy was open
to the public from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.85/
A blind memo, dated 11/27/64, entitled "Memo
7 passed to. Mr. Papich of FB] with info on photo |
coverage of Embassies and info on Kostikov,” implies
7 that the coverage on the Ciban Embassy was of a...
: “continuous nature during deylight hours. “This memo-.
“also implies that there was a coverage of the Cuban
@: Consulate. 86/ The technician who serviced this
“operation in Mexico City remembers that he tried to
get full daylight coverage of the compound but that
it was very difficult.87/ He said that the manuat |

' coverage was usually good tut that human error had to

‘be taken into account when considering the manual
coverage. He pointed out that it was hard for a

; person to maintain constant. attention in such a

sedentary job and, hence, ‘ome visitors would get by
the manual operation. 88/ jhe. technician also remembered . &
that: che had set up the pulse camera to Provide constant

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FOR LEE HARVEY OSWAI.D, MEXICO CITY
AND THE CENTRAL INTEI]LIGENCE AGENCY

Al See Warren Report, pp. 299--304, 733-736. In support of  ¢

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account of Oswald's contacts with the Soviet and

Cuban diplomatic missions, the Warren Commission pub- -
lished the following as e::hibits:

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A note from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs
to the Swiss Ambassador in Cuba. (Commission Exhi-
bit 2445.). .

Lee Harvey Oswald's visa application and the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of tthe Republic of Cuba's letter
denying the visa. (Cornmission Exhibit 2564.)

Letterhead Memorandum «:o J. Lee Rankin from Richard
Helms re: “Technical E::amination of Photographs of
Lee Harvey Oswald's Application for a Cuban Visa." |
(Commission exhibit 31:7. )

The pages of Lee Harvey Oswald's notebook with the
telephone numbers of the Cuban Consulate, the Soviet
Consulate and the Soviet Military Attache's office.
(Commission Exhibit 21:1.)

A letter dated 11/9/63 from Lee narbey Oswald to the
Soviet Embassy in. Washington, D.C. (Commission Ex-—
hibit 15.)

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A letter from J. Edgar Hoover to the Warren Commission
listing the contents o: the Féderal; Bureau of Investi-
‘gation's file holdings on Lee Harvey Oswald prior to
the assassination. (Commission Exhibit 834. This
document listed a Cent:‘al Intelligence Agency "release"
dated 10/9/63 that reported Oswald's contact with

the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.)

A memorandum dated 5/11/64. to the United States Enm-
bassy in Mexico City f::om the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs for Mexico. (Commission Exhibit 2120.) -

A-memorandum dated 6/9/64 from the Ministry of Foreign

-Affairs of Mexico to tie United States ymbassy in |

Mexico City. - (Commission Exhibit 2123.)°

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po only working for six hours a day.90/- The House Select

; Committee on Assassinations has not been able to
determine the scope of the pulse ‘camera coverage
during September and October 1963 by examination of
the production because that production, if it exists,
has“not been made available for review.91/

The CIA has made the photographic production
and Togs from the manual coverage of the Embassy
entrance available for House Select Committee on

7 ; Assassinations review. 92/ AN production from the:

rT - manual camera coverage of the Cuban Embassy for the

months of September, October and November was examined.93/
a | This examination revealed that the coverage of the .
Embassy was fairly consistent between the hours of
~ 9:00.a.m. and 2:00 p. m.-on weekdays. 95/ There was

coverage, with a few exceptions, on every weekday. 96/ |

There was no coverage on weekends .97/ During the three-

month period examined by tte. House Select Committee on

Assassinations, only four veekdays were not covered

by the photographic surveillance operation aimed at

the: Guban Embassy. 98/ ‘There was ‘no evidence in the
files of serious: technical difficulties o or camera

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problems in the manual operation during these three
months .99/

4. Disposition of Froduction from the Operaton |

The photographs fron the manual camera were
maintained in a chronological file at the CIA_
station in Mexico City.100, These photographs were
routinely shown to a peneiration agent in the Cuban
Embassy for identification purposes.101/ After this

agent left the employment of the Cuban Embassy in
1965, the photographs were sent to the JMWAVE

Station in Miami, Florida ‘or review by Cuban

defectors such as AMMUG/1. 102/

The disposition of zhe pulse camera photographs

in general, beyond the fact that as of 1965, and

possibly earlier, the production was routinely sent

to Headquarters, is unknow1?.103/ The CIA denies

“that the pulse camera was functioning during the time

“on those days remains a mystery.

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Oswald was in Mexico.104/ If the Committee's belief

that the pulse camera was functioning on the days that

Oswald visited the Cuban Consulate is correct, then

the ul timate disposition of the photographs produced

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1. Introduction

The Mexico City CIA Station maintained
i photographic surveillance un the. Soviet, diplomatic
‘compound in Mexico City in 1963. Three: photographic
sites, or bases, were used in this operation.105/
The primary objective of the operation was to photograph
moo. people who visited the Sov et Embassy. 106/ ‘The’
@: operation, generally, covered the main gate of-
. the Soviet. compound between 900 and 1800 (or dark).
, on weekdays and from 900 tc. 1400 on Saturdays.107/

2. Physical Positicning of Surveillance

— _ - Bases and Targets.108/
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‘There were three bases which provided photo-

graphic surveillance of the Soviet diplomatic compound

jn 1963.109/ One of the bases overlooked the enclosed
garden or "backyard". area of the Soviet Embassy.110/

The other two bases, of primary concern to this
‘Committee, covered the entrance to the Soviet
compound.111/ The primary base, LIMITED, was.

“directly across the street intersection from: the main —
Soviet Embassy gate; the secondary, or "back-up," :
LILYRIC base was across. the. street and down a little

ee. way from the main Embass} gate. 112/

3. Objectives of (peration and Scope of

Coverage Provided

The purpose of this operation has also been
7 a ’ described as being to obtain photographs of Soviet -
officials and their families; all foreigners .
-(non- Latins) who visited the Embassy; and cars with
_foreign license plates. 113/ One of the main purposes
of the photographic bases that covered the Embassy gate

was .to obtain a photograpa of every "foreigner," or

ek —. non- Latin, in contact with: the Soviet Embassy. 14/
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Soviet espionage agents.
My understanding of that was that it was to
be used to identify those people who might
be working for the Soviets as espionage
agents who were U:S. citizens who went down
there driving a car with a U.S. license
plate on it, or people we did not know
but could identify. ‘The same procedure was
also used for tryinc to ‘denti’y people ya
other than U.S. citizens...115/ -.,. arr he eee
It is reported that the Merican nationals who manned
the photographic bases and actually took the
photographs had an “uncanny ability” to pick out
@ foreigners.116/
The House Select Conmittee on Assassinations
next attempted to determine the scope of the photographic
coverage on the main gate cf the Soviet Embassy. At
a minimum, the Embassy was probably covered by the
a , photographic operations during office hours.. "The
instructions were to cover the entire work day,
(office hours)..."117/ “Instructions were to cover
office hours, photograph eich néw Soviet and family,
all foreigners and foreign license Plates."118/ The

. normal work hours of the Seviet Embassy during September

[3 and October of 1963 were from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00-p-m. 119/
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There are some indications that the Photographic :

‘coverage was more extensive: than just office hours.

Even though the Embassy wa: not open past 6:00 Dem,
visitors could still gain entrance by ringing the gate

bell. "Russian speakers can get in any time."120/

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One | BIA officer: who was in Mexico City remembers”
"that the photo surveillance ‘was constant except for
instances where it would be down for security reasons

or equipment malfunction."i21/ A blind memorandum,

dated 11/27/63, entitled "Memo passed. to Mr. Papich ©

. » | of FBI with info on photo overage of embassies and

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info on Kostikov," says, in part,

We have photographi: coverage during daylight
hours on the USSR, cuban, Czechoslovak and.
Polish Embassies. [Their consulates are
Tocated in the embassies and therefore the
coverage of the embissies would include
.... €overage of the consulates. The photographic
i coverage is of a coitinuous nature during —
_ daylight hours. Hovever, weather conditions
and other factors affecting any photographic
efforts require that _the coverage not be
considered as total or complete. Lees

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Ann Goodpasture was questioned about the scope

of .the ‘photographic: coveraje on the Soviet compound

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I can guess, and my guess is that wey were
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open most of the time when the: ‘Consulate was
opened for business iours. But the per- i.
son who would have tiat information, the only - !
person who would knov, is the case officer who ©
. was handling the project at that time. 123/
Ms. Goodpasture explained tie discrepancy between the
time of coverage as stated in her notes and testimony
and that in the 11/27/63 me norandum by saying that. the
memorandum referred to the coverage instituted after
the assassination of John Kennedy.124/ An examination
.of the photographic production from the LIMITED
base shows that the coverag: from that base prior
eo a ‘to the assassination was fairly uneven.125/ The log-
sheets for this operation siow that, if anything,
coverege decreased after th: assassination.126/
The: House Select Comnittes on Assassinations
“ reviewed production and Jog materials from one base,
LIMITED, which covered’ the jate of the Soviet diplomatic
compound. 127/ The LIMITED ase was referred to as
the "primary" base because it began operation before

the LILYRIC base opened.128'

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LILYRIC was planned as” an alternate “base to

LIMITED..

same side of the street as LIMITED but in the
middle of the block South.
view of the front gete of the Soviet Embassy.129/

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the LIMITED base which. was made available to the

House Sélect Commi ttee on i.gsassinations. 130/

Number of Photo-f¥

Time of lst Time of last
age stated photograph _ -photograph graphs taken
‘ aug. 31 800-1400 - 986 ~—«:1220 8 (Saturday)
Sept.:1 800-2000 . 1009 (1321 6 (Sunday)
oo 2. 830-1900 °935 1556 19
So 3 - 830-1800 -1131 1334 18
@ 4 830-1800 1001 1715 — 43
5 1200-1900 1238 1510 ‘12~—-
6 830-1800 . 926 1702 39
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9 900--1900 1159 1640 3
10 830-1800 855 1119 17
ll — 900-1900 1132 1550 14
: 12, 900-1900 1015 1233
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15 KH RKHRKKEKEEENO COVERAGE * #4 HHH Kee EERE ERE R EERE RE
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a 17 -900-1900 . 1133. - 1549 © : 19 .
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4 25 900-1900 .. - 104¢ 11370 4
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3 900-1900 _ 1200 | 1222 © 5
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8 900-1900 1219 ; 1232 . 5
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10 900-1900 ; 1031 1719 18. i
11 900-1900 1522 - 1733 ; 9 ; ' &
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23 1200-1900 NA+ |. NAA. 8 7
24 1200-1900 N.A. ; N.A. 22 é
25 1200-1900 © N.A. N.A. ; 21 4
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Given the somewhat uneven nature of the coverage
maintained by LIMITED,131/ the House Select: Committee
on Assassinations staff asked whether the two bases
were run in conjunction so as to provide more

" comprehensive coverage. Tromas Keenan, the project's
case officer, did not remen ber that this was. the case.
He did. remember that both Lases operated at the same
time so as to. get the most complete coverage possible. 132/

Mr. Keenan. was: not sure whether there was routine

_ coverage of the Soviet Embzssy on weekends. 133/ He
eo said that it was possible that there was routine |
. coverage on Saturday ‘mornirgs. 134/— ,

An examination of the project file maintained
by the CIA on ‘the photographic coverage of the Soviet
Embassy does not bear out Nr. Keenan's assertion
that the two bases duplicated efforts. . In fact,..the

“project file confirmed that. the bases complemented each
other rather than duplicated efforts. This was the

case in 1960 when a projeci review stated:

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indicating all] arrivals, departures and, where
possible, - identities of every person visiting
or working at the LIMERICK target...LIMITED's
photographic coverage is still concentrated on
visitors, as opposed to employees, to the
LIMERICK installation...LILYRIC photographs
also are concentrated on visitors to the target,
as opposed to employees. It should be noted
that LILYRIC operates for photographic

_ coverage during the hours from daylight to
1400 hours each day of the week except Sunday.
The LIMITED base maintains photographic
coverage from 1400 Fours to darkness each ay

except Sunday. 135/

In 1961 the project review said:

; . 1. To collect operetional information
i ; pertaining to LIMERICK personnel and physical

ty . facilities through tse of photographic
base houses. Three e photographic bases,
‘LIMITED, LILyRIC.4 ntribute to this
objective. To alvoic repetition, the Station
“is omitting the usucl description of the functicns
of these three bases and how they contribute .
to the above objective. There has been no change
in the coverage as cescribed in the 1960 ;
Request for Project Renewal .136/

Similar statements are included in the project reviews
for 1962 and 1963.137/ At one point.a move was made

at Headquarters to close the LILYRIC base:

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FI/OPS recommends s=rongly that the photo.
coverage be reviewed from the standpoint

of value and usefulness with a view to
determining whether the LILYRIC activity

could not be safely eliminated and the
additional photographic coverage conducted

on a more selective basis, without
materially affectinj overall usefulness.138/

The Mexico City Station took exception to this-
. recommendation:

While HMMA 14093 covrectly referred to
LIMITED, LILYRICST3is ' "photographic base-
houses;" the Statio1 would like to emphasize
that photographic coverage. is only one of ~
their functions... LIMITED is used as a radio
. . . dispatch base for automobile Surveillance
teams in addition t» physical surveillance
@ ; _ of persons entering the front gate. Their
photography is negligible compared to their
other duties. The -ILYRIC base performs.
the best photography of persons visiting. the
front gate, perhaps because the vantage point
‘for taking the pictures is from the second
floor and above the street traffic which
partially blocks LIMITED photographs.
-LILYRIC also does individual reports on
LIMERICK personnel entering and leaving the
main gate...139/

. In 1964 the Mexico City Station restated the operating
procedures of, the two bases in a dispatch referenced

-to the above paragraph from HMMA - 14793:

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The Station. feels that it would be helpful

to summarize at this time information
previously reported to Headquarters (see
paragraph 3, reference B) concerning the photo
basehouses under this project and thereby

give Headquarters an updated frame of
reference in which to view the roles of the
various basehouses.

The LIMITED and LILYRIC basehouses
provide coverage of front of the LIMERICK

‘installation. Althcugh on the surface it may
appear that these tno basehouses provide ;
duplicate take, this is not the case. It has
been the Station's experience in running the
unilateral LIEMPTY operation that a 0900 to
_ evening workday, which would be required of
a single basehouse in order to cover the’
LIMERICK target effectively, is just too long
for any pair of agerts to remain effective.
@ This is: especially irue when it is considered
; ; that. these basehouse operators. are essentially
“unsupervised during their workday. It would
also be impossible «or a single base-house: to
provide the kind of coverage this station needs
on the target insta lation, especially during
the peak hours of activity, namely late
morning and early a‘ternoon. For these
reasons, the LILYRIU basehouse. generally
operates from 0900 :o 1400 or 1500 weekdays.
LIMITED operates from 1200 to 1800 or dark
(as the daily situa:ion dictates) on weekdays,
and 0900 to 1400 on Saturdays. (These hours
are subject to chanje to fit Station needs.) .
Special coverage fo- Sunday is arranged on a
need basis; however, past experience has shown
regular coverage of Saturday afternoons and
Sundays is not rewarding. This schedule
provides for both basehouses to be in action

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j ; during the peak activity hours of the LIMERICK
i ; " target. Although even this arrangement is not
completely airtight, anything less than this
. would present unacceptable gaps in the coverage.
It must also be considered that without
two basehouses covering the front of the
target installation, any illness, personal
problem or vacation for operators:of one _
basehouse would terninate Station coverage...
per It is the Station's opinion that as.long as
: the LIMERICK installation is a prime target of
_ the Station, it will be necessary to maintain
the present three bisehouses. To eliminate
i any one of the thre2> would create a gap in the.
Station's coverage that would not be ,
compatible with the emphasis placed on
this targeted 40/ Ce. ha cis adblar .

! :. But the information in the preceding chart does not.
@ | ‘correlate with the statemeit of the coverage in
HMMA-23343. The above cha-t, on pages 37-38, - |
refers to the coverage of che Soviet compound by the
base that the review of HNIIA-23343 reveals covered
the compound from 1200 to 800 or dark. - The chart
shows that while 1200 to 11:00 coverage is sometimes
the case, the base's coverage of the Embassy, at least.
during the months of Septenber and October, on days
when the base operated at i1], was not always in’
that time period.’ This jis the Base that the dispatch |

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was in operation on only four of those days.. This
Committee has. not been abl> to establish or disprove
the possible inference that LILYRIC covered those

days when. there was no cov2rage from LIMITED because
the. production and ‘logs from the LILYRIC base were

not made available for review.” That material was |
requested but: has not been made available.141/ An
explanation of why this material is missing was
‘requested on 7/25/78. 142/ The CIA's explanation stated
that the photographs and logs "May have been destroyed
eo ° _ in a purge of Mexico City Station files and that the
folders for the destroyed Naterial were résed to
forward more recent photograph: Cc material to
Headquarters for retention. "143/ The folders which
once contained the production were located at the
National Archives’ Warrenton Records Center but,
according to the CIA's explanation, the folders

contained production material from 1967.144/ Becausé

the CIA has not provided tie photographic -production

and Yogs fromthe LILYRIC for examination, no

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"Regardless of the s:ope and effectiveness of

the two bases, a question that may never be resolved

due to the conflicting evidence and missing production,

- the surveillance was considered adequate:

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How thorough was the coverage?

They covered th2 categories that we asked
them for on a riutine basis, which was to
identify any people who appeared to be
non-Latin and any Soviets.

I understand that was the purpose. Given
that purpose, how thorough was the coverage?

I think it was accurate.

Was Win Scott satisfied with the performance

of the photo operation at the Soviet
Embassy?

To the best of my knewledge he was.145/

Procedure and Timing Involved in Processing

Production fron the Operation Ses

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The CIA photographic bases were manned by at

least one agent who took photographs and kept a log

sheet of people éntering and leaving the Embassy and

of the photographs that he took.146/ The film

i,‘ -remained in the camera until the whole role was.

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After the assassination of John Kennedy, this
procedure was changed and tie film was cleared from
the camera on a daily basis.148/ .

The CIA contract ageit outside of the United -
States Embassy who was in ciarge of the photographic
bases was Ramon-Joseph Alvarez Durant.149/ Alvarez
picked up the film, prior t) the assassination, from
the photo bases three times a week.150/ Alvarez

then took the film to his brother-in-law, who worked
at night, to develop it. The brother-in-law also

@. | printed the film into eight-by-ten contact prints.151/
' After the film was “developed and printed, Alvarez
- turnee over the negatives and contact prints to.
Thomas Keenan. 152/

7 “Ms. Ann ‘Goodpasture picked up the photo. Ss
production if Mr. Keenan was not available.153/ ‘Mr.
Keenan or Ms. Goodpasture, would then bring the

- photographic production back to the Mexico City”
Station in the American Embassy.154/ -Mr.. Keenan did
not remember with certainty to whom he turned over

the material, but believed it was either. Ms. Goodpasture

7 fo a or Herbert Manell. 155/

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_5. Responsibility for the Operation

There is some controversy as to who -had
overall responsibility for this project. Ms. Good-
pasture testified that the responsibility was Mr.
Keenan's.156/ Mr. Keenan, according to Ms. Good-
pasture, made ali the decisions and had all the
responsibility involved in the operation.157/ Mr.
Keenan was the most junior Operations Officer in

: ‘ the Mexico City Station in 1963, and claims that his

[ ) | role in the operation was jiargely Vimited to legwork. 158/

, Ms. Goodpasture testified that her role in the
operation was limited to acting as an alte~nate
Case Officer, ‘internal rousing of the production,

“and review of the photographs to insure the maintenance
of technical ‘quality in the operation. 159/ Ann | |
Goodpasture's annual Fitne:s Report for the period
1 January 1963 to 31 December 1963 specifies her
duties in regard -to this overation. The fitness
report. says, . . _ |

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1 Staff Agent.160/

Ms. Goodpasture denied that she had any supervisory
rote in relation to this of eration.161/ The House |
Select Committee on Assassinations redeposed Ms.
Goodpasture in November 1978 and asked her about this

apparent inconsistency between her Fitness Report

and her testimony:

Q: Now, having read your Fitness Report for’

1963, are there any portions of your
Prior testimony that you wish to modify?

. A: No, not really. Now, this LIEMPTY
| Project, this is a case of where I cannot
@. . “seem to make it clear how our functions. ~

were. Now, the case officer had
responsibility for the Operation of the
Project. He decided how much’ to pay the
agents, what hou-s they worked, where
the meetings wer» held. He hired them;
he fired them anil he knew the identities;
he met with all of them.

He brought .in the Photographs, the product.
*. He dumped it on ny’ desk and he was finished
with it. I took the Product film and:
prints and the contact file and
.distributed those. —— cs

I could levy any requirements of him or
other people in the Station which. as he
remembered it it might have been for .-
Supervision, but when he was out.of town

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fs. I. met with one acent with his’ so-called
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oeg) this descriptior was inaccurate, you

“y _ this documert go to Headquarters?

A: 1 think it was nade on the basis of trying
to get a promotion for me.164/

Alan White, who was Deputy Chief of Station
in Mexico City in 1963, te:tified that Ann Goodpasture
was "a Special Assistant" 10 the Chief of Station
and that "her main respons bilities were to handle ‘thie
Surveillance operations.."115/_ Mr. White stated that.
this included ‘both the pho:ographic and electronic
-surveillance.166/ Mr. Whi :e remembered. that Thomas |
Keenan "did help Annie witi soma of the pickup
fof production)" but that vis main responsibilities
were with another operation. 167/ Mr. White ‘also
"testified that: - ,
(Ann Goodpasture) carried with her a lot of
invisible authority that devolved upon her
because of her operational relationship with
the Chief of Station, who had absolute
confidence in her. She had a marvelous
Memory. She was meticulous in detail. I

' think he had every reason to put | that kind.
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She reported directly to him. While
She may not have been invested with any
command authority by virtue of her position
at the Station, certainly she'was a kind
of unofficial deputy for the purposes of
the operations that she was involved in.168/

Ms. Goodpasture was asked adout Mr. White's statements
as well as similar statements by other people associated
with the CIA's Mexican operations. 169/
Ms. Goodpasture: Well, I made more of those
statements as those oeople Saw it in their
relationship with Mr. Scott's. projects. They

. are true the way they saw it but I had no-
- responsibility outside the projects that we

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didn’t think I was as “important as other
people seemed to imply that I was.170/

Ms. Goodpasture also testified that her relationship
with Mr. Scott could be termed special in that- she was
responsible for the day-to- day handling of the telephone

tapping operation of which Mr. Scott was the case |

officer.171/ ;
‘Mr. Keenan's recollection that he turned the
photographic production over to Mr. Manel] or Ms.
Goodpasture was confirmed by Ms. Goodpasture. 172/ Ms.
| - Goodpasture aiso testified that the primary

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the Station was that of Mr Manell.173/ Ms. Good-
pasture testified that she was responsible for routing
the photographs and that tle complete production |
went to the Manells before it was filed.174/

Copies of the important photographs were given to the
Manells for them to retain for routine use in the
course of their work.175/

The flanells' recollection of their role in

is

this operation is very dif‘erent from that of Ms.
Goodpasture. Mrs. Manell cestified that Ann
e . Goodpasture held the photouraphic Production very .
tightly.176/ Her recollec:ion was confirmed by
“her husband.127/ The Mane Is stated that they did
not routinely review or ser all of the production from
the Soviet Embassy photographic surveillance operation.178/
They claim they only saw the: photographs .
that Ms. Goodpasture thought were important enough
to bring to their attention.179/ According to the
Manells, access to this fie was tightly controlled

. by Ms. Goodpasture.180/

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6. Coordination of Photographic and Electronic

Surveillance Operations

The Mexico City Station employed an operating

procedure whereby the functioning of the photographic
base and the electronic intercept base could be

- coordinated. If the listering post monitor heard

something that would lead rim to believe that there

was someone at one of the Embassies that should be

- photographed, he would alert the CIA technician in

e .the listening post who would then alert Ann Good-
pasture.181/ | Ms. Goodpastire could then alert.

Thomas Keenan who would then notify the. Photographic
base. 182/ The. reporting tc Headquarters of information :
generated by the photograptic surveillance operation
and the electronic operaticn was also coordinated.183/
The Station was able to-go back to the photographic
chronological file to checl for photographs of .

people that were picked up on the tap operation: when
the transcripts were revieved. 184/ “It was a matter

of routine to check the: photographic production when

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that indicated a contact vith an Embassy that was
subject to photosurveilla.ice.185/
‘A name trace could have been requested on
j the basis of the name alone but that wasn't the
{ way Win Scott ran “hat Station. He wanted
” the photographic coverage tied in with the
. telephone coverage ..sometimes there
' - was a U.S. automob-le license number. It
waS~also part of the "numbers game" of
j justifying a project by the number of
dispatches, cables or reports produced.186/
C. Electronic Surveillance of Telephones at
the Soviet and Cuben Diplomatic Compounds

7 - in 1963
1. Existence

The Soviet and Cuban compounds were, in 1963,
the targets of a multiple, line telephone intercept
Operation. 187/ ‘This Operation was run in liaison with
the highest officials of the Mexican Government.188/

2. Responsibility

a. General ©

Win Scott, the Chie“ of the Mexico City Station,

was, nominally, the case o“ficer for the telephone’

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surveillance project.189/ Even though Mr. Scott was
the nominal case officer, the "routine case officer
functions" were performed ty Ms. Ann Goodpasture.190/
An American technician was stationed in the listening
‘post to maintain the equipnent and to protect the
‘Station's interests there.191/ Ms. Goodpasture's
‘duties in this operation renged from meeting with

boos the technician/officer ‘inside the base for the purposes -

of daily supervision of the operation to handling the

collection and distribution of the tapes and transcripts.192/

oO Ms.

With the exception of the sechnician, the listening

Goodpasture worked in this capacity until 1968.193/

post and the transcription room of this base were
staffed by Mexican Army of‘icers.194/ This listening

post covered up to thirty ‘ines at one time.195/

b. Analysis ani Reporting of Information

Obtained

‘Mr. Herbert Manell.vas responsible for the
analysis, processing, and daily review of the Soviet
- _transcripts.196/ The transcripts were reviewed on a
daily basis by Barbara Man211. Mrs. Manel] would -

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bring conversations of interest or importance to
Mr. Manell's attention. 197/ _
Mr. Manell was also responsible for reporting
“the information developed from the Soviet wiretaps.
He indicated that the reports were usually written
by himself or Barbara Manell. ‘Toy these reports were
. usually in the form of cables or dispatches to CIA
Headquarters.199/ The Manells also usually handled
the notification of representatives of various other
United States governnent organizations in Mexico City
@ when the information warranted such notification. 200/
“David A. Phillips, a CIA officer who was
stationed in Mexico City in 1963, testified that
information from the taps would be reported if the
information was important, if it was useful to another
’ Agency component, or if it was something that should
"go in the record." 201/ Mr. Phillips said that only
a small amount of the information developed from the
taps. would be formally repcrted to CIA Headquarters
ahd that the information that was reported was
generally something more important than the usual

we conversations that were routinely intercepted. 202/

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though, that.an examination of

the project files shows that Americans in contact

with Communist diplomatic institutions were routinely

reported to Headquarters for name traces and dissemination

to the intelligence community.203/—

3. Telephone Lines Covered |

ad

This Committee has made an attempt to determine

which telephone Tines at the-Soviet and Cuban

’ diplomatic compounds were subject to this electronic

intercept operation in September and October of 1963.

The monthly operational report of this project for.

_ the month of September lists the following phones

as targets of the operation:204/

14-42-37
14-92-14
25-07-95.
14-13-26
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Cuban Embassy
Cuban Embassy
Cuban Embassy

Soviet
Soviet
Soviet
Soviet
Soviet

Embassy
Embassy
Embassy
Embassy
Embassy

Peery

(Chancery)

(Chancery)

(Military Attache)
(Commercial Office)
(Film Representative)

The report notes that lines 14-92-14 and 25-07-95 at.
. the Cuban Embassy were disconnected on 23 September
| - eR 1963.-205/ The.monthly repcrt for October says that
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there has not been any charge in the’ lines coyered
since September. 206/
A review of the transcripts produced by this”
operation revealed that th: CIA has transcripts on
file from the two-month pe-iod of interest.
to this Committee from three Cuban lines: 14-42-37,
"14-13-26, and 25-09-14.207' It is noted that the last
telephone line was not lis:ed inthe monthly reports.208/
A review of the Soviet traiscripts revealed that the
five lines listed in the monthly reports. were tapped
@ on 27, 28 and 30 September.209/ Only two of the
lines, 15-61-55 and 15-60-55 : were covered on Sunday,
29 September.210/ |
“The House Select Conmittee on Assassinations
“has found some indications in testimony given before

this Committee and CIA documents that more Cuban —

lines were tapped at that time.211/ This Committee
has nat been able to. determine with certainty whether
three lines (the number of lines on file in the

transcripts), two lines (the number given by the

contemporaneous monthly report), or five lines (the
number given by some witnesses and documents) were

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subject to the intercept operation. It should be
noted, though, that there vere five lines tapped in
the Cuban compound in 1964.212/ They were:

14-42-37. The Ambassador's private telephone

25-07-95 The Chéncery

. 14-13-26 - The Chincery
25-09-14 . The Conmercial Office
11-28-47 The Corsulate

One CIA employee whc was involved in Cuban
Operations in Mexico City remembered that there were

taps on the telephone of the Cuban Consulate. 213/ It is

possible that the employee, Mr. Phillips, who ‘Was “stationed
@ Co in Mexico City from 1961 tc 1966, was incorrect, after

a fifteen- ~year hiatus, in placing: this tap in 1963. 214/
As the above notes, an examination of the Project

files fails to support” Mr. Phillips’ memory,

although those files do shcw that the Consulate
telephone was tapped in 19¢4.- . .

4, Production from Operation

The intercept listering post operated from

approximately 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. every day .215/

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‘Thirty recording machines. chat were impulse activated
every time a tapped telephone was used taped the sur-
veilled conversations.216/ In addition, the

“intercepted conversations ‘vere monitored by personnel

in the listening post.217/
‘a. Types

The. production from this listening post was
“broken down into three cat2gories for the purposes
of handling the tapes and transcripts: (1)-intercepts
@ of interest to the Mexican officials (these included .
such. groups as the Movimento de Liberacion Nacional,
individual Communists, the Mexican Directorate of
Federal: Security); (2) Cuban intercepts; and (3) Soviet

and bloc country intercepts.218/ |

b.. Handling Procedures.

~ (1) Resuma

A summary of the conversations deemed of
sufficient interest by the listening post monitors was
‘prepared as they were monitored.219/ These summaries
were called “resuma. "220/ The resuma were = given to

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the day after they were prepared. 221/ Ms. _ Goodpasture
had the previous day's resima on Win Scott's desk by
| 9:00 a.m. on the morning. 0” the day after they were
prepared. 222/ Win Scott murked these resuma for
action. by his case officer: before routing them through

the Station. 223/ This Comnittee has requested copies

of these resuma from the C.A but they have not been

made available for review. 224/

The resuma covered all thirty lines that were
@ covered by the intercept operation. 226/ Only important
. conversations were included. in the resuma.226/ The
monitors made the decision as to which conversations
were important.227/ After the résuma were prepared,
the tapes from the lines o° interest to the Mexicans
were held for approximatel: ten days and were then
reused.228/ The resuma we-e maintained in a

chronological file at the listening post.229/
(2) “Cuban “apes

‘The Cuban tapes (taxes. produced by taps on

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the reel was used up.230/ When the reels were full,
they were removed and transcribed in the listening
post.231/ The transcripts would be turned over
. to Ms. Goodpasture at the same time as the resuma.232/
The tapes produced by the Cuban taps were maintained
in the listening post. 233/ There was a special rack
‘for those tapes inthe technician's workshop, which
was situated on the floor above the room in which
the listening post was located. 234/ “This
rack had thirty slots in it. The tapes from each
day's production went into a separate slot, with the’
oldest tapes going back into use in the monitor:
room; ie.,. the tapes from the Cuban intercept were
held for thirty days prior to reuse.235/ The tapes
were not: turned over to M5. Goodpasture unless she

. “requested a specific tape.236/
(3). Soviet Tapes
(a) General Hand] ing

The Soviet tapes wer2 removed daily from the

Machines. .237/ The Spanish language Portions of the

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post. 238/ The transcripts and tapes from the Soviet
lines were then routinely turned over to Ann
Goodpasture along with the resuma and Cuban transcripts. 239/
Ms. Goodpasture then turned the tapes over to Robert
Zambernardi, who then delivered them to Boris
Tarasoff for translation and transcription of the.

Russian language portions of the tape.240/
(b). Retention and Reuse of Tapes

There is some question about how long the Soviet
@ a tapes were retained before reuse. There are
indications that the tapes were routinély held for two
weeks and then. reused. 241/ The technician who -ran
the listening post could not state. with certainty
‘what the Practice regarding retention and reuse of
the Soviet tapes was. He said that he did not —
hold the tapes at all once they were returned:to him
by MS. Goodpasture.242/_ He stated that. he assumed that
some of the tapes were retained by either the station
or the Russian translator because his: Supply. of tapes

for the Russian taps kept dwindling. 243/ - ‘The tapes

were not retained by the translator. 2aay Tt is possible

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fon, that the tapes were held fur two weeks in the station
before they were erased and sent back to Arehart
for reuse. 245/ Robert Zamhernardi remembers that
Thomas Keenan spent a lot of time in the Station
erasing tapes on a special machine for that purpose. 246/
One of the main sources for the two-week period
being ascribed to retention of the Soviet tapes
is DIR-88680, which Says:
Upon receipt you may’ resume usual practice

of keeping Cuban and Soviet tapes two weeks
and then erasing.24:/ ©

@ This Committee has not found any evidence that would
. contradict the above- quoted statement in regard to
the Soviet tapes.

* There was a procedure whereby the tapes could
be held for longer. than twc weeks if someone thought
that the tape should be preserved as well as the
transcript.248/ The interested officer could make
a note on the transcript or he could notify Ann
Goodpasture, orally or by rote, that he wanted the

tape preserved. 249/ There were no written rules or

i . regulations governing this Procedure. 250/

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(c) English Language ‘Conversations
There are some indications that English
Tanguage conversations were transcribed at the
listening post. The Tab F Draft says:

Reels which contained Russian or a language
- other than Spanish or English were taken to

another location Lother:than the listening -

post} for translation and typing.251/.

Goodpasture's notes say:

Those transcripts which had Russian or another language
‘besides Spanish or English went out of the
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(of he conversatiors on the reel) was typed.
- These reels were taten to another location where
@ they were translatec and. typed.252/

But, in her testimony before the House Select Committee
‘on Assassinations in executive session on 4/13/78, Ms.
Goodpasture said: .

The transcribers, o: the transcription that

-I picked up, the transcribers were working

at the same place with the Spanish text. If

the language were o:her than Spanish, it ~

would have to be taen to another location

to be transcribed. The material that was

picked up the day after the date on which it
occurred was in the Spanish language, normally. 253/

It is clear that th: reels of tape with

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Mr. Tarasoff has testified that he was also responsible
- for the transcription of the English: language
conversations although his wife, Anna Tarasoff, usually
did the actual transcribing.255/ This testimony is
confirmed by the testimony of Anna Tarasoff.256/
Arehart, the technician in the listening post, could
not clearly remember whether or not any of his
Mexican transcribers did the English language
conversations.257/ He remembered that these tapes
were usually sent to the Station. 258/ He said that
eo | he did remember that monitcrs would often come to
his workshop and ask him tc come downstairs to
listen to a conversation ir English.259/
All of the conversations in the Spanish
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transcripts are in Spanish.260/ Al of the conversa-.
‘tions in Spanish were transcribed:in Spanish.261/- It
is doubtful that the liste: ing post transcribers, who.

were Mexican nationals, would have translated an

English conversation into Spanish and then ‘transcribed

it. In light of ‘this, Tarasoff! S. recollection and.

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(d) Handling by Tarasoffs.

Along with the reel: of tape that contained
Russian language conversat: ons (and probably English
language conversations), Mr. Tarasoff received a
copy of the Spanish transcripts .262/ When the
Tarasoffs received the tapus, they transcribed only
. those conversations that were denoted’ on the Spanish
“ transcript as being in Russian. 263/
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day after they were made.2n4/ Mr. Tarasoff testified

Tarasoff routinely received the tapes the.

that he would then immedia:ely transcribe the tapes
and turn over the complete tapes and transcripts
to his contact the next mo-ning.265/ —

Mr. Tarasoff said toat she-VOTOWE Ot work—e

& the

transcripts were always firished in one day.266/

"Sometimes there was so Jittle work in transcribing
‘the Russian ‘portion of ‘the tape that 7. was Just
hanging around doing nothing. "267/ Ann Goodpasture, ;

at one time, put the time fag. for completion of the

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Russian transcription at approximately one week. 268/
In her testimony before this Committee, Ms. Goodpasture
stated that it generally tcok Mr. Tarasoff one or two

days to complete the transiations and transcriptions. 269/

-(e) E»pedited Procedure for.

English Language Conversations

or other Conversations of

Special Interest

t : There was a procedu-e whereby Mr. Tarasoff's

@ , transcription could be exp:dited if there was a

special interest in a particular conversation.270/
When the monitor in the listening post encountered
something. he considered imodortant enough to require
expedited transcription, it was possible for him to
bring this quickly to -the Station's attention:271/
Although Arnold Arehart was not the Tarasoffs'
‘contact in September. or October of 1963, he did serve
as such at one time .272/ When’ he was interviewed by

the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Mr.

Arehart was asked whether there was a process whereby

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or Russian could be expedited.273/ He explained
that there would not have teen such. a. process. for

a Russian conversation, sirce the importance of the
conversation: could not be judged due to the fact
that no one in the listening post could understand

that language.274/ Arehari. did say that there was

such a procedure for English language ‘conversations .275/
When one of the Mexican monitors encountered a
conversation in English, he would ask Arehart to
listen to that conversation. 276/ After listening
@ . - to the, conversation, Arehast would decide whether or

| not it warranted special -a:tention.277/ ‘If he deemed
that it was iniportant enoujh, he would mark the tape
“Urgent,” put it ina box, and deliver it to Ms.
Goodpasture. 278/ |

Mr. Arehart's recol lection was” confirmed by an

examination. of the project files for this operation.
One of the monthly project reports explains this |

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Headquarters (is) nct well informed on the
way the Mexico Station exploits operational
leads from (this operation). The outside
staff agent, Arnold Arehart has instructions
to alert the Statior immediately if a U.S.
citizen or English speaking person tries
to contact any of tte target installations.
This is done by a telephone call from outside
‘the tap center at a pay phone to (Ann Good-
pasture) inside the Station. Emergency
meetings are arranged in double talk...(Good-
pasture) meets Arehirt within fifteen minutes
at a pre-arranged: dtwntown location and
receives the reel w th an extract of the
pertinent conversat’on. The reel is then
taken to the Station and given to the case
officer responsible for the target the person
was trying to contact. Headquarters is
. notified by cable oO” the action taken.
a Only in rare cases -s information on a U.S.

@ citizen passed without prior Headquarters

approval .279/

If the tape was from a Sov et installation, the tape
would have been delivered she same day to the Tarasoffs
by Mr. Zambernardi.280/ A ong with the tape, the
Tarasoffs would receive a iote indicating which ..
conversation was to be traiscribed on a priority
basis. The Tarasoffs woulji then immediately transcribe

that conversation and retucn it to their regular

contact that same day.281/ It should be noted that

the monthly report says thit the Soviet transcripts

would be delivered to. the zase officer responsible

for the target installation. 282/. In the case of the
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Soviet target, that case officer would have been

- Mr. Herbert Manell.283/ Mr. Manell testified that
he had nothing to do with transporting the transcripts
to or from the Tarasoffs except in rare instances
when no. one else was availasle to do the job.284/ Mrs.
Tarasoff testified that the "urgent" tapes were .

delivered and picked up by their regular contact.285/
(f) Handling in the Station

All of the transcripts were brought into the
6 . _ Station to Ms. Goodpasture.286/ Ms. Goodpasture
routed the copies of the transcripts and retained

“one copy for her own file. .287/ - One oy af ai 1 of:
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of by Ann Goodpasture the morning they were
/ received. 288/. Ms. Goodpasture routed the Cuban
transcripts to either Robert Shaw or David Phillips.289/
; One copy of all the transcripts eventually went into:
a chronological. file.290/ One copy of the Soviet
transcripts was cut and pasted onto separate sheets.
‘of paper and filed in appropriate Subject or

. : ae personality files. 291/- The resuma were also maintained

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ina chronological file.29?/ One copy of the Cuban
transcripts was routinely sent to Headquarters on

a weekly basis.293/

(g) Format of Transcripts

The format of the transcripts that Mr. Tarasoff
produced was much the same as those of the Spanish —
language transcripts described above.294/ Mr.
Tarasoff's transcripts wer? from Russian into English.295/
Many of Mr. Tarasoff's. transcriptions bear the notation

"(previously transcribed)". “after the meter number
referring to the ree] footage location of a
. conversation.297/ Mr. Tarasoff indicated that this
notation meant that the conversation had already been.
transcribed from a tap on another embassy phone:
"Previously transcrioed". means, for instance,
I went: to the embassy first and the embassy
“number.was 605055. Now this number 501264
betonged to the film's office. So consequently
if that particular call’ went out of the main
building to the films office and it had been
transcribed before, that is exactly what I

would do, put down “previously transcribed". .
"So there was no question of doing it twice. 298/

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In addition to his translation and transcription
duties, Mr. Tarasoff as a matter of routine attempted
to identify the voices of the participants ina |
‘conversation.299/ This eventually led to Mr.

Tarasoff's collecting voice samples from tapes of
Russian officials whose voices he had identified. 300/

Mr. Tarasoft also made comments about the personality

and dispositions of - the participants in conversations

x } that he transcribed. . Generally, these comments, or

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“personality assessments” were made on separate

pieces of paper and not on the transcripts themselves.301/

“III. Information About Lee Harvey Oswald's: Stay in
Mexico that was Known by the CIA Mexico City
Station Prior to the Assassination of John

Kennedy and the Sources of that Information

In 1963 the Central Intelligence Agency’ s

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‘ oe “Mexico City Station surveilled both the Cuban and a
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The Mexico City Station received daily transcriptions
of the telephonic surveillance of the Embassies. 303/
The. Station received twice, or three times, a week
‘the photographic coverage of the Embassies and

Consulates .304/

TY. . Information Available to the Mexico City
Station from Electronic Surveillance
. Aimed at the Soviet Consulate and Nilitary

“Attache! Ss Office,

From the electronic surveillance of the Soviet
Embassy, the CIA Mexico City Station learned of the
following conversations ‘that were subsequently Vinked

by Station personnel to Lee Harvey Oswald:
a. September 27, 1963, Friday:

(1) At or aoout 10:30 a.m. an
unidentified man called ‘the Soviet Military Attache
looking for a visa to Odess3. He was referred to:

’ the Consulate. The man thei asked for and was given

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were not noted by. the tran:criber.. The entire.

conversation was transcribed in Spanish. 305/

(2) At 10:37 a.m. a man called: the

“Soviet Consulate and asked for the Consul. He was

told that the Consul was not in. The man outside
stressed that it was necessary for him to get a visa
to Odessa. He was told to call back at 11:30. This

conversation was: also transcribed in Spanish. 306/__

; . . _ (3) At 1:25 an unidentified man called —

the Soviet Consulate and asked for the Consul. The

man was told that the Consul was not in. The man —
outside asked, “When tomorrow?" The Soviet official
told him that. on Mondays and Fridays the Consul was
“in between four and five. This conversation was also .

in the Spanish transcriptions.307/

(4) At approximately 4:05 p.m. Silvia
Duran called the Soviet Eribassy. She told the person
at the Embassy that an American citizen seeking a

visa was at the Cuban Consulate. Silvia explained

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- of the official he had dealt with at the Soviet

Embassy. Silvia had sent the American to the Soviet
Embassy, stating that his acquiring a Cuban visa

was contingent on his previously acquiring a Soviet
visa. Silvia explained to the Soviet official that .
the American had stated that he. was assured that

there would be no problem. At that point, the
Soviet official put another official on the phone,
causing Silvia to repeat the story. The official then

‘ oO asked Silvia to leave her rame and number so he could

@ - call later. This conversation was also in Spanish. 308/

(5) At 4:26 p.m. an unidentified Soviet

official called Silvia Duren inquiring whether the.

. American citizen had been “0 the Cuban consulate
office. Silvia responded affirmatively, stating the
American was at the office at that. time. The Soviet
official told Silvia that when the American visited
the Soviet Consulate office: he had displayed papers”
from the Soviet: Consulate in Washington, He ‘also had

“a letter stating that he wis a member of an ‘organization

4 go a that favored Cuba. The. ‘American wanted to go to the

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long time. The Soviet official had not received an
answer from Washington to the American's problem. The
problem traditionally took four to five months to resolve

because Washington had tov secure authorization from

the U.S.S.R. The Soviet official added that the
American's wife could get a visa in Washington very
quickly and she could have it sent anywhere, but he.

felt that the American would not get a visa soon. Silvia

said that the Cuban government could not give the

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American a visa because he had neither friends in

Cuba nor authorization for a visa from the U.S.S_R.

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The Soviet official added that the Soviets could
“not give the American a letter of recommendation
because they did not know him. This conversation was

also in the Spanish transcripts. 309/
b. September 28, 1963, Saturday

At 11:51 a.m. Silvia Duran called the Soviet
Consulate. She said that there was an American
citizen at the Cuban Consulate who had previously

visited the Soviet Consulate. The Soviet asked .

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telephone, Silvia put the /merican on the line. At
first the American spoke it Russian and the Soviet
spoke English. The conversation then proceeded

in English until the Russizn discontinued ‘it and put

another Soviet on the line. The Soviet spoke in
‘English, but the American, speaking in broken

Russian, asked him to speat Russian. The conversation
resumed in Russian at that point. It also became

incoherent and is thus quoted in its. entirety:

American: ‘I was ;ust now at your Embassy and.
they tcok my address.

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American: /speaks terrible, hardly recognizable
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them fcr my address, because they
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Russian: Why dor't you come again and leave
. your acdress with us; it is not
far frcem the Cuban Embassy.

American: Well, 1'11 be there right away. 310/

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c. October 1, 1963, Tuesday

(1) At 10:31 acm. an unidentified man
called the Soviet Military Attache and, in broken
‘Russian, said that he had visited the Consulate the
previous Saturday and had spoken to the Consul. The
, man wanted to know if the Soviets had received an
answer from Washington. At that point, the Soviet.
official gave the man the Consulate phone number and
Doo | ‘asked him to call there. This conversation is in the
e English transcripts, indicating the man spoke in

either Russian or English.ill/ ~ _

- (2) At 10:45 a.m.312/ a man who,
‘according to the translator's comment, had phoned a
day or so before and had spoken in broken Russian,
called the Consulate and spoke to an. employee -named
Obyedkov. The man calling introduced himself as
"Lee Oswald" and stated thet he visited the Soviet ,
“Consulate the previous Satirday. He told Obyedkov
that he spoke. with the Consul on that day. Oswald
added that the Consul had stated that they would send

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had received an answer. Oswald also said that he

did not remember the name of the Consul with whom he
had spoken. “Obyedkov asked if it had been Kostikov
and.described him as "dark." The man outside replied
affirmatively and repeated that his name was Oswald.
Obyedkov asked Oswald to hold on-a-minute. while he |
inquired. When Obyedkov resumed the conversation, he
stated that the Soviet Consul had not yet received

an answer but -the request had been sent. Obyedkov
then hung up the telephone as. Oswald began another
@ "+ sentence with the words "ard what." This conversation

is in the English transcrifts.313/
d. .October 3, 1963, Thursday

An unidentified man called the Soviet Military
Attache and spoke in broker - Spanish and. then in .-
"English. When the man inquired about a visa to
Russia, he was. given the Consulate phone number. The
man then inquired if they - ssued visas at the Consulate.
‘The Soviet stated that he was not certain but that the.

“caller should call the Consul nonetheless .314/

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2. Information Available to the Mexico City

- CIA Station from CIA Headquarters

On October 11, 1963, three days after the Mexico
City Station made the initial. report to Headquarters
of Oswald's contact with the Soviet Embassy, the Mexico
City Station received some information about Lee |
Oswald from CIA Headquarters. Headquarters informed
Mexico that the Lee Oswald who visited:'the Soviet
, Embassy may be identical to Lee Henry (sic) Oswald.315/
@ co Mexico City received this cable on 11 October 1963.316/
. This cable described Oswald as: ; .

. born 18 Oct. 1939, New Orleans, Louisiana, .
former radar operator in United States Marines
who defected to USSR in Oct. 1959. Oswald is
five feet ten inches, one hundred sixty five
pounds, light brown wavy hair, blue eyes.317/

The cable reported Oswald's defection in 1959; his
desire to return to the United States in 1962; his
émployment in Minsk; his marriage to a Russian citizen;
the return of his passport; and the State Department's

issuance of visas for.Oswald and his family.318/

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3. Information Available to the Mexico City
Station from Electronic Surveillance Aimed

at the Cuban Diplomatic Compound

An examination of th2 production from the
electronic surveillance of the Cuban diplomatic. compound’ Ss
telephones failed to reveal any telephone conversation
that directly mentioned Oswald or information that

clearly and directly referred to him. 319/

4. Information Available to the Mexico City
@ - + Station from Photographic Surveillance of .

the Soviet and Cuban Diplomatic Compounds

An examination of th: production from these
operations failed to reveal a photograph of Oswald. 32 320/
This Committee has not been able to rule out the
possibility that a photogrash of Oswald was obtained
in Mexico City: by these ope -ations since the material
made available for review wis incomplete. 321/, The
possibility that-such a pho:ograph was obtained is.
discussed in Section IT, A.u. below. The photograph a

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5. Possibility that Additional Information from
the Electronic Surveillance on the Soviet
Compound was Available to the Mexico City

Station

Ms. Anna Tarasoff assisted her husband, Boris,
in the transcription of tapes from the Russian.
Embassy.322/ Ms. Tarasoff testified before this

Committee on 12 April 1978.323/ She was, shown the
no transcripts from the conversations that were
eo intercepted on 10/1/63 at 10:31 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.;
9/28/63 at.11:51; and 10/3/63.324/. She recognized
these transcripts as being her husband's work. 325/
She testified that she could identify his work by the
style of his writing or typing and the use of
slash marks .326/

In addition to these transcripts, Ms. Tarasoff

testified that she remembered one. more conversation

that involved Lee Oswald.

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According to, my recollection, I myself,

have made a transcript, an English transcript,
of Lee Oswald talking to the Russian Consulate
or whoever he was at that time, asking for
financial. aid. ;

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here and whatever happened to it, I do not know,
but it was a lengthy transcript and I personally
did that transcript. It was a lengthy conversation.
between him and someone at the Russian Embassy.327/
Ms. Tarasoff testified that the transcript that she
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remembered was approximately’ two pages long. 328/ She
testified that the caller identified himself as Lee
Oswald.329/ She was certain that the 10/1/63, 10:45 a.m.
@ ‘. conversation was not the one that she recalled.
. Wo, This would not be the conversation that I
would be recalling for the simple reason
that this is my husband's work and at that
time probably ‘the name didn't mean much of.
anything. But this particular piece of work
that I am talking about is something that came
in and it was marked as urgent. 330/ ;
‘In the call that Ms. Tarasoff recalled, Oswald spoke
only English.331/ Ms. Tarasoff testified that the
10/1/63, 10: 45 conversation could not be the call she
remembered because the transcript indicates that
Oswald spoke in borken Russian as opposed to English;
the transcript is shorter than the one she remembers ;
the transcript is in her huSband' s style | as opposed

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to her own; and there is no mention of Oswald's
finances in the transcript. 332/ .
Ms. Tarasoff remembers the procedure for
urgent tapes.333/ Her memory is confirmed in this
cnarrow respect by the project. files reviewed by House
Select Committee on Assassinations staff members..334/
Ms. Tarasoff recalled that there would be a piece of
paper enclosed with the ree} which would indicate the
footage number where the ccnversation occurred and
ask for priority handling cver the other conversations
@ | on the reel. 335/. After the conversation was transcribed,
: the Tarasoffs would immedietely notify their contact
and then turn the transcript, over to him on the same
day that it had been delivered. 336/
. Ms. Tarasoff was que stioned about the details
of the conversation which ¢:he remembered. She
stated that Oswald definitely identifie:d himself and that

he was seeking financial a-d from the Russians.

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(H)e was: persistent in asking for financial
aid in order to leave the country. They
were not about to give him any financial ;
aid whatsoever. He had also mentioned that
he tried the Cuban Embassy and they had
also refused financial aid.337/

Mr. Boris Tarasoff 2180 testified before this
Committee on 12 April 1978. «Mr. Tarasoff also recognized
the. four transcripts from September 28, 1963 and
October Ist and 3rd as his work:338/ Mr. Tarasoff
testified that he recognized the 10/1/63 conversation ;
as his work because the nane Lee Oswald was underlined. .

We got a request frcm the station to see if

@ we can pick up the name of this person

, because sometimes we hada so-called

“defector” from the United States that
wanted to go to Russia and we had to keep
“an eye on them. Not I -- the Station. _
Consequently they were very. hot about the
whole thing. They said, “If you can get the
name, rush it over immediately." Therefore,
it is very seldom that I underlined the
name because I put them in capitals. In
this case I did because it was so important:
to them. 339/

Mr. Tarasoff testified that he did not know how
Oswald had come. to the Station's attention prior to
this conversation or what led to the request to get

his name. 340/. He speculated that it was possible

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that Oswald first came to the Station's attention through
Oswald’ s contacts with the Cuban Embassy. 341/
Mr. Tarasoff. did noi..confirm his wife's

recollection of another conversation including

Oswald. 342/ ‘He said that le did not remember any

other calls involving Lee Nswald or any details of

Oswald's conversations’ that were not reflected in

the transcripts .343/

Although Ms. -Tarasoff's memory was. not confirmed

e Soot by the House Select Committee on Assassinations review.
of the transcripts for the period while Oswald was
in Mexico, there are several points of circumstantial
corroboration for her story. There was a procedure
by which tapes could be er pedited in the manner in
which Ms. Tarasoff recalls. 344): There are also
indications that this procedure may have been used when
Oswald's conversation wat. intercepted. 345/_ The first
report that the Americans received regarding Silvia
Duran made mention of the fact that-Silvia. claimed
that she had. told Oswald -hat- the only aid they could”

give him was ‘to refer him to the Soviet Consulate. 346/°

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This statement in the original. Mexican report given

to the CIA in Mexico after the assassination would

tend to add credence to Ms. Tarasoff's

recollection that. Oswald mentioned to the Soviets

that he had also tried to elicit aid from the Cubans.347/

At least one other CIA official who was in Mexico

also remembers that Oswalc indicated in his

discussions with the Soviet Embassy that he hoped

to receive assistance with the expenses of his trip.348/
| Daniel, Stanley Wat:.on, a retired CIA employee

who was Deputy Chief of Le Mexico City Station from

1967 to 1969, told the Hoise Select Committee on

Assassinations staff that he had seen a. file on Oswald

in Mexico city that contained only one or two intercept

transcripts and surveillaice photographs of Oswald. 349/

‘Mr. Watson also told HSCA staff investigators that Win

Scott had a private personal safe in which he maintained

especially sensitive materials.350/ According to

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This Committee requested access to any relevant
materials from this safe or July 6, 1978.352/

Access was granted on October 6,.1978. Two statements
by Mr. Scott contained in these materials lend

circumstantial support for Ms. Tarasoff's testimony.

In 1970 Mr. Scott w
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rite in detail. One of these pertains: to
Lee Harvey. Oswald and what I know (emphasis
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F . / he arrived in Mexico, his contacts by ;
telephone and his visits to both the Soviet
r - and Cuban Embassies and his requests for.
assistance from these two Embassies in trying

to get to the Crime: with his wife and baby.
During his conversations. he cited a promise

from the Soviet Embissy in Washington that they
-would notify their :mbassy in Mexico of © ;
Oswald's plan to as< them for assistance. 353/

In his unpublished manuscript, Scott refers to a
conversation in which Oswald gave the Soviet Embassy

“his name very slowly and :arefully."354/ Although

recollections, there are. iitéresting parallels with

the testimony of Anna Tarasoff and David Phillips.355/

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one other additional call ihat may have been available

to the Mexico City Station prior to the assassination

of President Kennedy. In “he first statement by

_ Silvia Duran provided ‘to the CIA by the Mexican woke. +o
government, Silvia Says that the Cuban Consul Ciived ;

the Soviet Consular official who dealt with Oswald. 356/
‘This statement is also missing from most Subsequent |

reports of Ms. Duran's sta-:ements, with the notable —

e " exception of the first CIA report to the Warren :

Commission. 357/ Ms. Duran’s early statement was

confirmed by Eusebio Azcue.358/ This conversation

“was not discovered by a review of the transcripts from . 7 A
the intercept operation. [It is possible that the call ¢
made by Azcue was to a Phove at the. Russian Consulate

that was not ‘Subject to el setronic surveiltance. It

is known that two of the piones at the Soviet

‘Consulate were subject. to surveillance.359/ This ; 6
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While this Committe: has not been able to find

any direct corroboration of Anna Tarasoff's claim,

the circumstantial corroboration is such that the

possibility that there was an additional transcript

concerning Oswald that was available. to the Mexico
City Station in late 1963. cannot be dismissed. In

avi likelihood, the Azcue call to the Soviet Consulate
concerning Oswald was” protably made on telephones

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6. Possibility thet the CIA Photosurveillance

Obtained a Photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald

This Committee cannot state with certainty
that a photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald was not
obtained by the photosurveillance operations in Mexico
City because of three reasons: (a) the photographs
‘from LILYRIC, the “alternite" photographic base
which covered the Soviet :mbassy main gate, and the

photographs from the puls: camera, which, covered the

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few samples were not maje available for review by the

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would have been unlikel» that the photosurveillance

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would have missed someone whom it had at least five
_ chances of recording;36°/ and (c) reports that such

a photo did, in fact, evist.362/

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first reason can be fourd in Sections II.A. and B.

Preceding. Simply put, this Committee has not seen

all. of the photographs Produced by the photosurveillance

operations in Mexico City. 363/ Hence, it cannot

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it would have been unlikely. for the photosurveillance ms

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is conversations about or involving Oswald intercepted

at the Soviet Embassy reveil that a man later identified
as Oswald was at the Cuban Consulate at least three

times on Friday and Saturday, September 27 and 28.

They also reveal that he was at the Soviet Embassy at
‘Jeast twice on those. same days.365/_ The CIA technician
who serviced the Cuban photographic installations said
that it was possible that the operation missed. Oswald
if: (1) Oswald's visits were after dark; (2) Oswald's
@ visits were on Saturday afternoons or Sundays; (3) the’

| case officer had given the photographic basehouse

agents the. days off that Cswald visited; (4) the ~ pulse
camera was not working.36€/ It is known that Oswald's
visits were on a weekday curing daylight hours and a -
Saturday morning.367/ This Committee has not
been able to determine with certainty, because of the

yO missing production, whether all of the basehouses

were operating on the day: of Oswald's visits. 368/

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Consulate and that the LILYRIC base covering the
Soviet gate should have been Operating at the time
. of Oswald's visits to” the Soviet Consulates on .

September 27th and 28th. 366/
Cc. Reports of Existence of a Photograph.

(1) Phillip Agee Allegation

On 6 January 1978, Fhillip Agee telephonically
contacted two House Select Committee on Assassinations
a a staff investigators at their office in Washington,
ad : D.C. Mr. Agee informed the investigators that he |
"would give the true story on the photograph
produced by the CIA which the CIA claimed was taken
of Oswald. in Mexico City in -1963."370/ Phillip
Agee was interviewed by HSC4 staff investigators on
11 and 12 January 1978. ;
Mr. Agee told the investigators that he had
been assigned to the Mexico Branch of the Western
"Hemisphere Division of the IA's Clandestine Services
in September of 1966. 3T/ Mr. Agee was. assigned to

work on the Headquarters’ Support for the Agency' s

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Soviet Union and other Sociélist countries, excluding
Cuba.372/ At the time that he assumed this job, a

woman named Elsie Scaleti wis in charge of the operational

support projects for Mexico. 373/' Qgos. atoted »

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Shejwas the officer -n Washington in charge

of all of the paperwork and other administrative

matters relating to whe support in Washington

to these operations which were underway in

Mexico City.374/

Ms.Scaleti trained Mi, Agee for his new
position. Mr. Agee characterized Ms: Scaleti as "the
key figure in the Mexico Branch in Headquarters,

@ oo “because she. had been there “or so long."375/

After his transfer to the Mexico Branch, Mr.
Agee heard a story about photographs of Oswald. Mr.
Agee could not remember with certainty who it had been
that told him the story, bu: thought that it may have

been Ms. Scaleti.376/ Mr. igee's recollection of the

story he had heard was that on the day of the
“assassination Ms. Scaleti wis working in the Mexico :
Branch in much the same position that she occupied in
1966.377/ When the news about Oswald's arrest .
reached Ms. Scaleti, she recalled seeing his name and

(a photograph taken by an ‘observation post in Mexico
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City..378/ Within an hour or two, Ms. Scaleti had

Jocated the photograph of swald visiting the Soviet —
Embassy in Mexico City.379/. Mr. Agee’went on to
say:

I don't know, don't recall in. factghow she
had been able tq reconcile or how they were
able to reconcile ian Mexico City the photo-
graph with the name, unless someone had
known the face. Bezause the problem with
these observation posts is that you can get
a lot of photographs from them, but to find
out the exact identity of the people is not
always an easy thing to do. And it may be- ;
that as they were listening to the telephones
-of the Soviet Embassy, and also the Cuban

@ _ Embassy, that she remembered the name. Oswald
or Lee Harvey Oswald from the telephone tap,
if in fact he had identified himself over the
telephone, and tried to make an appointment
-with the consul or whoever. And then they
were able somehow to reconcile the telephone
conversation with the photograph that was
taken from the observation post the same day
or more or less whenever the appointment was
‘made. On the other hand it may be that this
photograph had not been identified until the
time of the assassination but that she had
heard or recalled perhaps either reading the
transcript from the telephone tapping or
getting a condensed report perhaps a weekly
report or something of the take from the
telephone tap that she remembered the name
,;Lee Harvey Oswald -and then went back into
the files of all the photographs and looked
through al} the. photographs until eventually —
she found a photograph that was similar to

; all the photographs of Oswald that immediately
ify. | ~. began to come over the television and the news-
Pome .'  . Services. So those details I. don’ t remember

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of exactly, but I do r2call that it was considered
a coup of some sort for her to act so fast in
digging out the photograph and the information.
on Oswald's visit t> Mexico City,380/

. . Mr: Agee could not remember whether he had

actually seen the photograph that Ms. Scaleti
allegedly found.381/ When Mr. Agee was told that the
photograph that the CIA produced from the Mexico |
photosurveillance operations did not look anything

at-all like Lee Harvey Oswald, Mr. Agee said that that

was the first time he had ever heard that. “Ne atotod :

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accurately. But ncw there seems to be some
doubt... And it wasr't anything that was
particularly secrei around the Branch. It
i ‘was just -one of these shop-talk stories that
i persist over the years. 382/

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the photosurveillance was routinely sent to CIA

“Headquarters and. that Ms. Scaleti would have had

access to the file at Hea:quarters.383/_

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(2) Daniel Stanley Watson Allegation

On June 4, 1978, tie House Select Committee on
Assassinations interviewed Mr. Daniel Stanley Watson
in Mexico. Mr. Watson served as a CIA officer in

Mexico City from approximi.tely 1965 to 1969. Mr.

‘Watson was the Chief of Covert Action (propaganda)

from 1965 to 1967. He was the Deputy Chief of the

Mexico City Station from 1967 to 1969.384/

Mr. Watson told the HSCA staff members that

sometime between 1965 and 1967 he had had occasion to

request Lee Harvey Oswald? 5 mexico C city Station

personality file 5285/7 Wren this file» was ‘delivered
to him, it contained only one or two photographs and
intercept transcripts. 386/ Mr. Watson stated that
the file was very thin and that the Photo(s) was a

3/4 shot from behind ~~ "basically an ear and back

‘shot."387/ Mr. Watson said that he did not think

that there was anyone else in the Photograph and he

thought that it was a Photdgraph of Oswald. 388/

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Mr. Watson said that he cculd not recall why he had
requested to see Lee Oswald's file in 1965 or: 1966. 389/
Mr. Watson said that it was his understanding that the
file was the complete Mexico City personality file on
Oswald.390/ Mr. Watson said that he would be
‘Surprised if Oswald's Mexico City personality file was
seven. volumes long.391/ Wr. Watson was asked whether. ©
or not Winston Scott, the Chief of the CIA Station

- in Mexico, would have destroyed files or photographs.392/ Mr.

Watson said that that would not surprise him. 393/

@ . At that point, Mr. Watson volunteered that Mr. Scott
often kept highly sensitive. information in a personal
safe in his office. He said that this information would
not have been filed or indexed in the usual manner. 394/
Mr. Watson said that when Winston Scott retired he
had taken the contents of this personal safe rh thet

him and stored them in a safe in his home. , When -ewde

Mr. Scott died, James Angleton Flew to Mexico and:

removed the contents _of this safe before Mr. Scott's’

funeral. 395/ “Mr. Watson said he did not know what

had been in Mr. Scott’ Ss safe or what happened. to the

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things that Mr. Angleton removed at the time of
Scott's death. Mr. Watson said that his source for
this allegation was Winstor Scott's widow, Janet. 396/
Mr. Watson stated that he thought the CIA Mexico City
Station had given the Warren Commission all the
material, in its possession but, he added, he also knew
that Winston Scott was capible of. "phonying a photo

if asked to produce one. °: never believed Win

Scott the first time he tod me something."397/
(3) Joseph Burkholder Smith Allegation

Mr. Joseph Smith, a retired CIA officer, was
interviewed by the Hquse Select Committee on Assassina-
tions on 19 October 1977. At this interview Mr.

Smith mentioned that’ the Mexico City Station had

been very proud of finding "the picture of Oswald."398/

He mentioned this in conne:tion with a woman who

_worked for Winston Scott in Mexico.399/ Mr. Smith was

“reluctant to speak about tiis at the time and-the

topic was not. pursued.400/

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Select Committee on Assassinations on 20 April 1978.
Mr. Smith was shown the omribus CIA release letter

and fully cooperated in answering the staff investigator's

' questions at this interviev.401/ At this time, Mr. -

Smith recalled hearing a story that someone, at the

time of the assassination, had remembered seeing
Lee Harvey Oswald's face scmewhere in the photographic
coverage of the Cuban or Rissian Embassies.402/ This.
person went back through tle files and found the
@ picture.403/ Mr. Smith sad that he does recall that
. the ‘discovery of the picture had greatly pleased
President Lyndon Johnson ard that it had made Winston

Scott his “number one boy.'404/

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he had first heard this story about the photograph,

but he said he was certain however, that he had
heard the story more than once.405/ He said’ that the
earliest that he could have possibly heard the story

was in 1964 while he was s::ationed. in Argentina. 406/.

He said. that not Tong afte the assassination he may

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Des (Fitzgerald) mijht have even mentioned it
when he came throug), which was in early ‘64,

or Gerry Droller mijht have mentioned it when

he came through, taiking about how the Mexico
City Station was helping: out during the investi-
gation. 408/ ;

Mr. Smith stated that he did know Elsie
Scaleti. He.described her as a “very Severe person
and very diligent and very much the Counter-
Intelligence mentality."409/. Mr. Smith stated that
he also knew Ann Goodpasture. He said:

; ; . Annie was ‘another one of Win-Scott's case
@ officers. She was in Mexico City for about

14 years. Annie was what we called the
_ "resource person." Annie knew everything. 410/

Mr. Smith said that Win Scott also had another very

knowledgeable woman who worked with Ann Goodpasture "—
in the Mexico City Station whose name he recalled as
“Leach or Lynch.411/ Mr. Smith's recollection.- ~~.

associated Ms.’Leach (or Lynch) with the discovery ‘of

the photograph of Oswald, but Mr. Smith was not

at all sure of this recollection.412/ When asked if

he had any. recollection oi Ms. Scaleti finding the.

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It could very well have been, and Annie, too.
“But I thought it was this other girl, Lynch...

But no, I don't think I ever heard specifically
who found the. damn Picture. I guess...]

didn't care: 413/.

(4) Joseph Piccolo, Jr. Allegation

Mr. Joseph Piccolo, Jr. was interviewed by. the

House Select Committee on Assassinations on 11 August
1978. Mr. Piccolo is an operations officer in the

CIA. He was stationed in Mexico City from

' December 1957 to January 1960 and again from August

@ = 1965 to January 1968. Mr. Piccolo was involved in
_anti-Cuban operations: from 1962 to (1968. 414/
‘During this: interview, Mr. Piccolo told ‘the ,

HSCA that sometime after the assassination of John

Kennedy he had seen photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald. 415/

Mr. Piccolo said that he had been shown these.

photographs by an individual who told him that they
to were photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald that were
obtained from the CIAt Ss Mexico City ‘surveillance of
the Cuban diplomatic compound, 416/ Mr. Piccolo could
not remember the - identity of the Person who showed |

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jihe fst picture shown was a three-quarter full

shot of Oswald, exposing a left profile as Oswald
looked downward, Fhe. ‘second photograph which Me. AC_
Ptceote remembered seeing was a back of the head view
of Oswald.418/ Mr. Piccolo remembered that both of
these photographs were taken from above Oswald and

to his left.419/ Mr. Piccolo was shown a copy of
Warren Commission Exhibit #237, the famous Mexico
Mystery Man photograph. He stated that this was

eo , definitely not the man in the photographs exhibited

to him.420/ ‘Mr. Piccolo correctly identified an

unlabeled frontal photogrash of Lee Harvey Oswald

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shown to him by the HSCA.421/

Mr. Piccolo was als> asked whether he knew
anything about the ci rcums tances surrounding the
Agency" Ss initial discovery of, the photographs he
claims to have seen. He stated that he did not. have
any first-hand knowledge o° their discovery, but
that it was the type ‘of thing, "a coup," that would -

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Mr. Piccolo stated that he had heard stories about
a surveillance photograph of Oswald being found both
in Mexico City and at CIA Headquarters in Langley.423/
He stated that Ann Goodpasiure may have been the person
who found a photograph of Cswald in Mexico City. 4247
‘Mr. Piccolo said that he hes heard several times that
Elsie Scaleti oung8 photocraph of Oswald. 425/

c he Tact {och TE that he hearc this Story was two weeks
prior to his interview by the House Select Committee
on Mssabs intone S26)

Mr..Piccolo stated that he currently shares an
@ oF . office. at CIA Headquarters with a man who worked on
. the Oswald case during a recent CIA “in-house”
investigation. 427/ Mr. Piccolo said that they were
“discussing Oswald's case because of the House Select
‘Committee on Assassinations’ release of several
unidentified photographs. Mr. Piccolo stated that
during the course of this discussion his office- ~mate,

Mr. Dan Niescuir, : stated that Elsie Scaleti, “the a

gal at the Mexico desk, " hal found the surveillance.
photographs of Oswald. 428/ Mr. Piccolo stated that

he assumed Mr. ‘“Niescuir had become aware of Ms.

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case.429/ Mr. Piccolo was not certain as to when he
first heard the story that 4s. Scaleti had found

the photograph, but he was certain that he had heard
it prior to hearing it from Mr. Niescuir.430/

Mr. Piccolo speculated that the Mexico City
Station may have routinely sent photographs of
unidentified Americans who visited Communist
Embassies to Headquarters for possible identification. 431/—

-Mr. Piccolo also told the House Select Committee
on Assassinations interviewers that he was aware, when
6 os he was in Mexico, that Win Scott had a personal

| safe in his office. He said that "restricted
materials" were held in Mr. Scatt's safe. "Restricted
materials" whee defined as very sensitive materials
that did not find their way into the routine files

and indexes.432/
(5) Statements of Dan Niescuir

Mr. Neiscuir stated that he had never been
involved in any of the CIA's "in- house" investigations .

of the Kennedy assassinaticn or Oswald. 433/ He

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"Oswald Task Force."434/ He said that this
occurred in late September or October of 1975, Loken.
—At—that time, there were two or three FOIA suits
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files on Oswald. 435/ prhese. files had to be processed

and the task was delegated to the Counter-Intelligence

Staff and he was assigned to the task force.436/
Mr. Niescuir stated that he was also one of the

primary contacts with two investigators from the

Senate Select Committee whe were looking into the
@ -. Agency's files: on Oswald at approximately the same
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time.437/ The task force ihat he was part of
conducted no research and enalysis of which he was
aware. 438/ Mr. NeiscuiF stated that the only
photograph he remembers seeing is the Mexico Mystery
“Man photo.439/ He said thit he did not recognize
the name “Elsie Scaleti."4:0/ He stated that he did

not recall ever being told that there was a photo

of Oswald from the Mexico vity surveillance operations. 44i/.
He denied ever ‘telling anyone that such a photo was

. found. Aae/ He did admit, however, to discussing the

aséassination: ‘with Joseph Piccolo. 443/

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d. HSCA Investigation of the possibility that
the Mexico City Photosurveillance Operation
Produced a Photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald
(1): “Introduction |

This Committee has conducted a general investigation

into the CIA's photographic surveillance Operations in
ww adds they Co the.
Mexico City in. 1963 aa—wedb aise specific investigation
into the allegations mentioned above. 444/
, In an attempt to dete::mine whether the CIA's Mexico

City photographic bases did, in fact, photograph Oswald,

this Committee requested the CIA to make available ‘to
@ . the HSCA the production of these bases. 445/. The CIA

| has in part. responded to ‘this request. 446/. However,

the production from LILYRIC, the second base that covered

the Soviet Embassy entrance, and the pulse camera that

covered the Cuban Consulate entrance, has not been made
available. for review. 447/ “he Agency? s withholding of
certain production materials from the photographic bases
has prevented the Committee Srom determining whether. a

photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald was taken by these Pphoto-_

surveillance operations.

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and Oswald's visit to that city, the Committee has inter-
viewed many CIA officers who were stationed in Mexico.
City, or worked in 1963 at CIA Headquarters in support
of Mexican operations. They iniformly testified that

the Station had not obtained a photograph of Oswald from

the photosurveillance operations: in Mexico City. 448/

(2) Investigation of the Allegations

Ms. Elsie Scaleti worked on the Mexico Desk in

1963. 449/ Ms. Scaleti coulji not recall her particular

responsibilities while she was assigned to the Mexico
Desk. 450/. She told the HSCA that she would have been
doing routine case officer work which would have involved
name traces, projects, budgets, et cetera. 451/ She

could not recall any specifics projects that she worked on

‘and she stated that the case officers on the desk would - -

not have had specific titles such as. "Chief of Support

Operations.” 452/ She stated that the.work of the Desk

was assigned to. the case officers by project and that

work that was levied that was not part of an assigned
project would have been done by anyone on. the desk who
happened to be available. 453/

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Scelso, Chief of the Mexico-}iranch in 1963, remembers that:

(Elsie Scaleti)...was the, sort of the

Major Domo of the Branch. She managed

all the records, hand..ed all of the

cables from Mexico that dealt with

security suspects, or asked for traces

on security suspects. 454/

Ms. Scaleti was in the. position that Mr. Agee said
she was in 1963. 455/

A major part of the a..legations is dependent upon
whether or not the CIA Mexico Station sent the photo-
production to Headquarteps. HSCA review of CIA files
has revealed no evidence tha’: the photoproduction was
@ routinely sent to Headquarte:s in 1963. 456/

HMMA-22307 detailed the installation of: a pulse

1 . camera to cover the Cuban Consulate on September 27,
1963. 457/ The dispatch sta:es that the results of

the testing would be sent to Headquarters as soon as they

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_were availble. 458/ Comittee did not find any
indication that photographs ‘rom this camera were sent

to Headquarters prior to 6/19/64, when Headquarters

‘was notified that some production was being sent by un-
accountable transmittal mani ‘est, 459/ with the excep-

tion of HMMA-22433, 11/7/63 which sent samples of the

photographic production from the camera. 460/ These .
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six samples when reviewed by the HSCA did not include a
burnt. . uo

; photograph, 461/
Ms. Scaletti was.asked about the allegations,’ how-
ever, her memory of 22 Nov 2mber 1963 is not good:.

Q: When was the next time after you. sent a
cable to Mexico City Station and you teletyped
thoese other ag2ncies, when was the next time’
you heard of Le2 Harvey Oswald?

A: I don't remember. The only thing I can say
is that based on what is in the file that I
must have heard about it when the Station

~ came in and asked--well, if there was nothing
else in the file the name popped up again, I
just don't remember about the assassination
or whenever.

r ) . Q: Would the téstinony be that to the best of your
recollection the next time you heard the name
was when you heard about the assassination?

A: Probably.

Q: At that time did the name Oswald ring a bell?
Did you remember -the earlier’ cable. traffic
about him?

A: I just’ don't krow. When he was assassinated,
I don't even remember how long it was before .
they got the nzme of Oswald.

Q: Oswald was picled up within two hours after the -
_assassination and the name was made public.

A: Immediately?
Q: Yes.
_ Ma I were in the office, ‘unless I had the radio
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sarily--I would not have heard the name
Oswald until the next day probably. I’
would assume this was a little bit unusual,
‘I mighthave tied .t in. I am sure the
first thing they vould have done is make

a name trace when they came up with that
name and they would come up with a 201
file all over again.

Do you recall wher: you were on Friday, Novem-
ber 22, 1963? ; ;

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A: Theonly thing I r2member about it is going
home and finding iny husband sitting in front
of the TV and talxing about it. I probably
was at the office but I don't remember any-
thing. I blanked out. TI must. have been at
the office. ; ;

Q: Do you remember bringing John Scelso ‘the Oswald
file on that day?

A: I. wouldn' t rememb2r that. If he had asked for
it I probably did. It would have been natural
for me to 4£ I dii. r just. don* t know.

Q: Did you ever find a photograph of Lee Harvey
Oswald at CIA Heaiquarters?

A: I don't remember aver finding an Oswald » -photo-
graph.

Q: Right around the time of the assassination?
A: I don't remember it.

Q: Did you find a photograph of someone. whom you
thought to be Lee Harvey Oswald?

A: I don!’ t remenber that either.
Q: Do you know Philip Agee?
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Did you ever tell Joe Smith or Phillip

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I aie hoi! exon Jcseph Smith in Mexico City.

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I don't recall it and I don't see that I
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Did you ever tel] Phillip Agee or Joseph Smith
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a report that a man claiminy to be Lee Oswald had been in

contact with the Soviet Emb:issy in Mexico City. 464/.

Fortunately, Ms. Sca’.eti's supervisor had a better
memory of the events that t::anspired at CIA Headquarters

on the day that President Kennedy was assassinated. He

said:
A: enol do not know how. long after the actual
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known, perhaps an hour, hour and a half.
Within minutes after that, they were out
with the cables in their hands.

Q: Within minutes of the name Oswald being on
the radio, an officer came in with Oswald
cables?

A: Yes.

(Q: Who was that officer?

A: 1 believe it was Mrs. (Elsie Scaleti) who was
the, sort of the Major Domo of the Branch. She
managed all the records, handied al} of the
cables from Mexico that dealt with security

suspects, or asked for traces on security
suspects.

Q: Did you ask her tow she was able to obtain
the Oswald cable: so quickly?

@ A: No, ‘1 know where she would have gotten: them.
We have copies o° them right in our Branch.

Q: At that time, did she also have a photograph
of Oswald?

A: No, I do not think so.

Q: Do you know whetrer(Elsie Scateti ever

discovered a pho:ograph of Oswald at CIA
Headquarters? ;

A: 1 do not think s)...I1-do not remember any
photograph of Osvald at that time, the day
of the assassination, or even later. I do
remember our asking -- we had to ask ONI for
a photo, and so an. As far as I recall, they
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The chief of the Mexico Branch quoted above was alsc

responsible for the initial CIA ‘investigation into the
a assassination of John Kennedy. 486/ |

“Mr. Scelso also testified that, at the time of the

assassination, the name of Lee HarveyOswald did not ring a

‘bell with him because “#housands of names were crossing my

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across aS many names as he did, would have remembered Oswald

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‘five or six other countries to work with as Oo
well. She has.a fantastic memory...f(Elsie Paragraph
t Scaleti) in her job as the manager of records, od ;
; traces and files, in this Mexico desk, was an aor . ”
@ mo, ; outstanding officer to whom I gave, in one of by +e.
her fitness reports, the highest evaluation,. Creme fleck
outstanding, number 6 and so on, that can be ~~ he
given, that was very rarely given at that time. to aa
Her work.was pretty near flawless and she 21523 rol
was an outstanding trainer. of new employees. 8/

Material removed from Win Scott's safe now in possession
of the CIA provides critically important circumstantial evidence.
that the CIA photo-surveillance operations. obtained. Photographs
of Oswald: |

“(Oswald's) visits and conversations are not -

hearsay; for persons watching these embassies

photographed Oswald as he entered and left.each. .
one; and clocked the time he spent on each visit." 469/

This. Committee believes that. a photograph of Lee Harvey.

Oswald was probably obtained by CTA photosurveil lance ine

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the CIAjs withholding ft) material sis MS. Scaleti' s strange
Japse of memory regarding the events of 11/22/633, and Mr.
Scott's manuscripts these things;—in the Committee's view,
-—-—would tend to indicate that’. photo of Lee Harvey..Oswald was
; obtained. On the other hand, the consistent testimony that a
photo was not obtained in Me cicorsthe absence a any record
of transmittal of the photo :o Headquarters - Tne weight. of this
consideration is mitigated by the fact that there were methods
of communication available tiat were not incorporated into
the CIA's record keeping systems. )x,and the testimony of ‘Ms.
@ | _ Scaleti and Mr. ‘Scelso that 1 photo was not discovered would
_tend.to indicate that, in fa:t, the allegations that Ms. Scaleti
found a photo of. LHG ‘are false.

‘TIE. B. Information Connected ‘to Lee Harvey Oswald by the Mexico
: City Station Prior to the Assassination.

1. Introduction

This study has demonstrated that the information from
the Soviet Embassy taps and from Headquarters was available 6

to the Mexico City Station prior to the assassination of

President. John F. Kennedy. In addition to the Agency

acknowledged information: there is a distinct possibility-that

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the Station had available to it one additional telephonic
intercept transcript, and one or more surveillance photographs.

This Committee has made in attempt to determine when the
available information was linked to Lee Harvey Oswald. The
Committee has also made an a tempt to determine whether all
the intercepted ‘telephone ca 1s were in fact connected with
Oswald or involved Oswald. §t should be pointed out, however,
that this analysis can only be directed at that information
now known to have been availible to the Mexico City Station.
This information will be discussed briefly in the following
section. In addition, the qiestion of whether Oswald or an
Oswald imposter visited the ‘mbassies and made the phone calls,
along with the possibility tiat Oswald was not alone in Mexico
City, will be dealt with in jreater detail in the final section
of this report. . . |

2. Information Availabl: from the Soviet Wiretaps

that was Connected with or involved Lee Harvey

Oswald.

The Mexico City Station d.ossessed nine intercepted telephone

conversations that may have jealt with Oswald. The conversations

are summarized below for easy reference, 4/0/ In the following

discussion the conversations will be referred to by date and
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9/27/63 10:30 AM Man calls Soviet Military Attache
: : regarding a visa for Odessa.
{Spanish.)
9/27/63 (10:37 AM _ Man calls Soviet Consulate regarding¢

a visa for Odessa. (Spanish)

9/27/63 ~ ‘1:25 PMs Man calls the Soviet Consulate and
asks for the Consul. (Spanish)

9/27/63 4:05PM Silvia Duran calls the Soviet
Consulate. (Spanish)

; 9/27/63 4:26PM Soviet Consulate calls Duran
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9/28/63 11:51AM ~ . | Duran calls Soviet Consulate and
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passed copies. of seven of the above listed conversations to
the U. S. Embassy Legal Attache.471/ the 9/27/.10:30 and the .
9/27 1:25 calls listed above are not included in this '
| dissemination.472/ ~The: cover memorandum states: .
° Attached are photostatic copies of transcripts ;
of all conversations from technical operations
of this of fis 4455 which are possibly Pertinent in
this case. oo. §
The HSCA has not bee. able to determine why the 9/27
: 10:30 and 9/27 1: 225 calls vere not included in this memorandum: -—
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e ; . — unlikely that the Same would apply to the 10: 30 call since

-the 9/27 10:37 cal] is inciuded in the memorandum.
At the bottom Of eact attachment page to the Scott

memorandum, a summary of the conversation is provided. Le

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The Station questioned the relevancy of only one’ of the seven

calls presented in the © mrmorandum, The summary of the 10/3
‘call says: .

By the context of othar conversations by Oswald
‘and the fact that this called (sic) spoke-in
broken Spanish and Enjlish rather than Russian.

which -he: used previously, 45,3 is Probable that.
this caller is not Osvald. 475/

(Ibid. » p.9.)

A Judgement that ‘this cal] did not pertain to Lee Harvey
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1) the caller spoke broken Spanish; 2) the caller did not

have the number of the Consulate; 3) the caller did not know

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that visas were issued at the Consulate; and 4) the caller

states that he is seeking t visa, not that he is. checking on

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an application already made. The majority of the evidence

indicates that Lee Harvey Cswald could not speak Spanish. 476/
In light of Delgado's assertions, it is possible that

} Oswald had at least a limited knowledge of Spanish. It ‘should

be noted that the. pe oN ranscript listed above indicates that
- the caller spokéjin brok Spanish. 477/ The fact that this .

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possibility that Oswald made the Phone call. This is especially
true in light of Delgado's allegations and the 9/27 10:30,
9727 10:37 and 9/27 1:25 calls which were also in Spanish. 473/
, . The record reflects that Oswald had the phone numbers —

7 of both the Soviet. “Consulate and the Soviet Military Attache in
4 - his notebook. 479/ It can rot be determined when Oswald

entered the numbers in the i0tebook. “Since Oswald had previously
‘called the Consulate it is likely that he had the number prior

to 3 October. ‘It is also clear that Oswald knew that the

Consulate. was responsible for issuing visas due to his prior

dealings with the Soviet. and Cuban. Consulates. Thus, -it is

oo, Probable that the: 10/3 conversation did not pertain to Oswald.

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The 10/1 10:45 call is clearly relevant because the
caller identifies himself as "Lee Oswald" ‘The 10/1. 10:31
conversation is probably relevant due to the similarity with
the 10/1 10:45 call and the marginal notations about

the quality of the Russian spoken by the caller, The 9/28 11:57

call is clearly~ relevant, acain due to the marginal notations |
and the involvement of Silvia Duran. Duran's calls on 9/27
clearly related to Oswald die to the substantive information
discussed in those calls. | |

In summary, the above listed calls contain the substance
of the information available to the CIA MCS, prior to the -
assassination from the Soviet electronic intercept operation.

The first three calls on 9/:7/63 and the one on 10/3/63,

if they were indeed Oswald, add little of substance to the
information that was availatle from. the: other calls.

3. When were the Intercepted Conversations
Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald
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“HSCA staff -researchers reviewed the transcripts from
the liaison wiretaps on the Soviet Embassy. The chronological

production from this operat on is on microfilm at CIA

numerous copies of the tran: ‘cripts that pertain to Oswald were

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himself in the call and the Mexico City Station reported ‘4g1/
Oswald's contact with the Sovtet Embassy to Headquarters on 1078/63

On this transcript the translator added the notation:

|. thee he same person who phoned a fay. or so ago
and spoke in broken Russian. 4827:

- ; . The transcript from the 9/28 11:51 call also bears
marginal notations from the translator. "MO (man outside)
takes the. phone and says in broken Russian ... speaks terrible,
hardly recognizable Russian, "484/ The first copy of this
transcript in Oswald's Mexico City "p" Filet85/ also bears
routing indications that show that the transcript. was sent to

@ Win Scott, Ann Goodpasture and Robert Shaw. 486/ These routing

_ indications were made by Barbara Manell. 487/ Mrs. Manel?
‘testified that these routing indications would ‘have been made
when she first saw the transcript. 488/ Mrs. Manell also wrote
an instruction on this transcript to file it in the "Soviet

Contacts” file at. the same time.489/ The 9/27 4:05 transcript

also bears Mx..Manell's routing and file instructions490/
‘The 9/27 ‘4:26 transcript also bears Ms. Manel}'s

_ routing and filing instructions. agi/ In addition, this
transcript also’ bears a notation, from. Win Scot which says.

"Ts it possible to ident ity? "492/ Herbert Nanel] wrote an

; - instruction, on this transcript to file it in Oswald’ s "P" file. 493/
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, The above four conversations which occurred on 9/27
and 9/28 contain almost all of the substantive information
that was available to the Mexico City station on Oswald
from the Soviet electronic intercept operation., These
conversations were not linked to Oswald prior to 8 October
1963 when MEX] 6453 was sent to Headquarters reporting
Oswald's contact with the Soviet Embassy on 1 October, 1963, 494/

The conversations discussed above were linked to Lee

Harvey Oswald by 16 October 1963, the date that the Mexico
city | tation opened it? s "Pp" file on Oswald. 495/ The process
, by which, and the events leading up to; the linkage of Oswald
@ . to. the intercepted calls will be discussed in the following
section on the Mexico City Station's actions regarding the
Oswald case prior to the assassination. :
4. The Photograph of the Mexico Mystery Man.
: . A photograph of an ur identified individual who visited

the Soviet Embassy was incorrectly linked to Oswald prior

to the assassination. 496/ The manner in which this mistake
was made and the consequences of that mistake will be discussed

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asusieeaahecons truction of the CIA Mexico City Station and Headquarters
i _sActions Prior to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

AY ‘Introduction--CIA Interest in and Liaison with FBI
Regarding American Citizens in Contact with Soviet
Bloc Embassies in Mexico City.

The Central Intelligence Agency has 5 claimed that no
investigation of Oswald was made. in Mexico Prior to the
assassination of President Kennedy. For this reason, the

“Agency claimed,. the fact that Oswald was seeking a
visa and that he had also been to the Cuban Embassy was
not discovered until after the assassination: |

- It was not until 22 November 1963, when the
Station initiated a review of all transcripts
- of telephone calls tc the Soviet Embassy that”
the Station learned that Oswald's call to the.
@ Soviet Embassy on 1 (ctober 1963-.was in con-
nection with his reqrest for a visa to the USSR.
Because he wanted to travel to the USSR by way.
of Cuba, Oswald had i1so visited the Cuban Em-
bassy in an attempt io obtain a visa allowing
him to transit Cuba.

Inasmuch as Oswald wis not an investigative
responstbility of the CIA and because the

Agency had not received an official request from
those agencies havinu investigative responsibili-
ty requesting the Agency to obtain further in- ;
formation, the Station did nothing other than

-ask Headquarters on °5 October for a photograph

of Oswald. 497/ ©

Neither of. the above assertions. is accurate. An
analysis of the information available will show that the
First assertion of the above quote, that. the Station did

“not ‘learn of Oswald' s conta:t with the ‘Cuban’ Consulate and

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CIA's IG Report inaccurately implies that no. ac-
tion would have been taken bi the Nextoxo city Station
with respect to an: American in contact with the Soviet
Embassy in Mexico other than merely reporting the contact
unless the Station had received a specific request from
“an interested U.S. governmen: agency. The IGR's implica-
tion is inaccurate because, 1s Will become apparent in
the following discussion, th: CIA had an understanding
with the FBI regarding this :lass of cases and often did

@ “nore that ‘just report witout any specific interest
| being expressed by any other agency of the United States
government. 499/ In fact, tie station often monitored
and mounted operations against Americans in contact with
Bloc Embassies. 500/ At a minimum they attempted to col-

lect as much information as possible-on Americans~in con-

tact with the Embassies. This was routine, it was also

the case with Lee Harvey Oswald.

B. Narrative of Mexico City Station Actions Prior
Ato The Assassination

On 27 September 1963 Silvia Duran contacted. the

Soviet Consulate on behalf of Lee Harvey Oswald: S0l/
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Later that same day, the Soviet Consulate returned
Ms. Duran's call. 502/ Unde - normal procedures, these
transcripts would have been in the CIA Station by the
‘first of October and Ms. Goo jpasture brought these trans-
cripts into the Station on tiat morning and put them
on Ms. Manell's desk. 503/ 4s. Manel] recognized the
transcripts as containing information of a possible coun-
terespionage or counter-inte!lligence interest and routed
them to Mr. Shaw, Ms. Goodpasture and Win Scott (in
reverse order.) 504/ Mr. Scott wrote, at the top of
the 9/27/4:26 call, ."Is it possible to identify?" 505/.
@ This was the first interest in Oswald recorded by the
Mexico Station even though the caller was.as yet uniden-
tified. .It indicates a routine interest inan American
who is in contact with the Soviet Embassy. ‘After the ©
transcripts were routed they were filed in a a general
Subject file. 506/
The 9/28/ call was probably received at the CIA
Station on Monday, 30 September 1963. The routing and
Filing instructions indicate that it: was handled in much .
the same way as ‘the 9/27 conversations. ( te ae
4 ae On 1 October 1963 a conversation in which an -En-_

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Consulate as Lee Oswald came to ‘the attention of a moni-
tor in the electronic surveillance base- house. -507/ The
monitor immediately notified the American technician
who then listened to the tap:?. 508/ The technician
had instructions “to alert tie Station immediately if a
U.S. citizen or English speacing person tries to con-

tact any of the target installations" 509/ The techni-

cian called Ann Goodpasture: and a meeting was arranged. 510/
The technician marked the tape "Urgent," specifying

where the conversation occuyed on the reel, put it in.

a box, and delivered it to Ms. Goodpasture within fif-

e teen minutes of the telephone call to Ms. Goodpasture. 511/

The tape was delivered to Boris Tarasoff who transcribed
it and. returned it to the Station on that same day. 512/
As’ soon as the Staticn learned that an American
had contacted the Soviet Emtassy (Ms. Goodpasture began
to screen the photographs from the Soviet Surveillance
‘operations. 513/ The photocraphs from the coverage of
the Soviet Embassy, however. were not delivered as
prompty as the transcripts. The photographs from Octo-

ber 1, 1963, were not removed from the camera -until 3 or

4 October. 514/ Hence, they would not have been received

’ until 4 (Friday) or 7 (Mondiy) October by the Station.

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A cable reporting Lee Oswald's contact with the
Soviet Embassy was written and sent to Headquarters by
Ms. Manell on 10/8/63. ‘Various reasons have been ad-
vanced to explain the seven day delay in sending this
cable. David Phillips explained the delay by saying

"that Mr. Manell.was too busy to be bothered by something .

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of such a routine nature. 516/ | 7 Abipe ptetsd:

Mr. Manellwas a busy man, sometimes pro-
crastinating. His wife was working for
him, and on one or two occasions I spoke
to Mr. Manel kiddingly saying, hey, where
. is the ‘cable about tris fellow, or something
like that, or maybe to his wife. I am not
sure. In any event, what happened a few
days passed and Mrs. Manelj prepared a
message--she was working for her husband,.
and as I recall ityste typed it herself,
but I am not positive on that point, but
in any event, she prepared the cable... —_::
and took it to Mr. Menelk at which time he
signed off on it. Diring that process, it~
did come to me, also to sign off, because
jt spoke about Cuban matters, and then went S/7

to the Chief of Station and was released. 5#?#/

A blind CIA memorandum entitled "Delay in sending -
the first cable about Oswalc" was located in a soft file
on the Unidentified Man photograph. This memorandum as-
serts that Dave Phillips ."d' dn't know what he was talking.
about." The memorandum's a:sertion is correct. Mr. Manel

did not sign off on the cab’'e reporting Oswald's contact

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{ | --off on that cable. 519/ The cable did not mention any-

thing about. the Cuban Consulate or Oswald's contact with

it. 520/ tr. Phillips meyer discussed the ¢ cable with
the Manellss, 521/ €n fact, Mr. Phillips Ss on a tem-

_ porary duty assignment in We shington, D.C., and Miami,
Florida, from.at least late September P to October 9,
1963. 522/ | .

The blind memorandum referred to above regarding

the delay offers another explanation for the seven
day lapse before sending the cable. After explaining

@ : _ that the photoproduction would not have arrived at the

Station until Monday, 7 October, the memorandum says:

A name trace could hive been requested on
the basis of the name alone but that wasn't
the way Win Scott ran that Station. He
wanted the photograpliic coverage tied in
with the telephone cuverage...sometimes _
there was'a U.S. automobile license num- ~
ber. It was also part of the “numbers
game" of justifying « project by the -num-
ber of dispatches, cibles or reports pro-
duced. 523/

In all 1ikel thood the delay in sending this ini-
tial cable was’ due. to a com ination of factors. Mr. Manel

testified that, in fact, he was not too concerned with the

task and left it to his wife. M« ated»

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The only action I took was the action my
‘wife took, was to send the cable to Wash-

ington summarizing th2 information we had

on Oswald and his contact with the Embassy...

We also asked our headquarters for a trace

of an American. That was routine. §24/

The delay could also have been partially due to the wait
for the photo-production. Ms. Goodpasture did check the
photographs and did add a paragraph to the cable concern-
ing a photogatph. 525/

Another reason that the cable was delayed was
that there was some question within the Station about who
had the responsibility to report Oswald's contact with

the Soviet Embassy. L
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Q: What action did you take after seeing

this transcript (from the 10/1 conversa-
tion)?

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Section, and by Ann Goodpasture who was Hee

discussing this and who was going to noti-.

fy headquarters and jwhose esponsibilit
it was. As I recall, Iwas told to write
it up.

Q: Why was there discussiom about whose re-
sponsibility ‘it was?

_A: 1 think because when it was an American it ~
sort of fell between whether we should
have to do it, whether it was our responsi-.
‘bility to send this up because it. had to.

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be accompanied by 2 memo and it took
time, or whether it was Ann's responsi-
bility. It was: just a little, not
argument, but a discussion about, well,
“"you do it, I don't want to do it, you
handle it," and I nad to de it. 526/

"The reason that the responsibility would have
Jain with the Soviet Section is obviously because the

American was in contact with the Soviet Embassy. Ms..

Goodpasture also had a potential basis for responsibility
because she was responsible for liaison functions with
the Legal Attache, ‘Army, Navy and Air Force on routine
couter- ~espionage cases. 527/ She also assisted the

Chief of Station and Deputy Chief of Station. on these

‘cases as they occurred. 528,

The primary reason for the delay was most likely

a.

a combination of the respon: ibility dispute and the

routine nature -of the case is perceived by the CIA- of-

ficers at that ‘time. Bron Bore amok etatol :

(Ann Goodpasture) probably came in--it

was really a matter of here is another one -
of those things again and we were having

a little gabble abou: who would send it ;
up because it was pain to do these. I pro-
bably, I think I haniled it as soon as I
got it but I think tiere was a discussion,
as I say maybe a half-a day, about who ©
was going to do it. It was. done because
‘it was required but it was considered un-.
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Important or significant information was usually
sent to Headquarters by cabl2 as opposed to the slower dis-

patch which was sent to Headquarters by diplomatic courier.
Pectin. dein Ltr cewe Lal “wad. -
re Cables were sent if tne information was -

of such a nature that it had to be acted.
on. within a day or a day and half. or two
days. Dispatches took so long that you
really could not take any kind of opera-
tional action predicated on dispatch. 530/ .

Mr. Manell, the Chief of the Soviet Section in
Mexico City recalled that ‘the criterion for a cable as
opposed to a dispatch was the perishability of the informa-
tion being transmittedy ¢ .
a The normal criterion would be the urgency
ry attached to that information, the perish-
ability of the information, not its im-.
portance necessarily. The perishability
was the criterion...If it was something
that concerned an ‘event that was going to
happen in the two or three days you did
not want to use a mecium which was going ©.
to take a week to get to Washington. 531/ ,
Hence, it is possible that Oswald's contact was
reported by cable because it was considered significant
by the Mexico Station; but this interpretation ‘is not.
supported by the weight of the ‘testimony.
; I Tyo other: criteria fer reporting by cable were

pointed out: information: corcerning Soviets, Cubans and

. ler
f 4 Americans. Generally, “éverything Soviet was of ‘high

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priority. Cuban Operations, a lot of cables were sent.” 532/

And, in the. case of Oswald:
ae oe OF ; . .
es this specific case. a cable was used ‘to
send this information to Headquarters only
because it. concerned in American, not be- |
cause it concerned a.inatter was considered
to be of importance. 533/

The tesimony of forme- CIA Mexico City officers

consistently supports the position that Oswald's ini-

tial contact: with the Soviet ey was considered

fairly routine. 534/ The tegimony indicates that the

routine procedure of: the Station was to report such a
e@ _ contact by cable whether it was considered routine or
not. 535/ The Station had instructions to report Ameri-

cans. in contact with the Bloc Embassies to Headquarters.

because it was of interest to the FBI. 536/ The follow- -
QL, wiser.

ing quotes fllustrate these.points. Allan White said: eg
‘ co Meu eh

. Q: Was Oswald's contact at the Embassies in ee A
Mexico, considered to be important? ‘

A: At the time it first occurred?

Yes. . 7 : ; §
A: 1 would have to ccnclude that it wasn't. recog-

nized as anything extraordinary atthe time

it first occuyed. ~ . 6

Q: Why do you conclude that?

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A: Because had it beer, it would have been
pulled out and seni to Washington either
with a complete trénscription, a com-
plete excerpt out cf the transcription,
or the entire tape and transcript would
have been sent to Washington by the first

-available pouch, probably by special cour-.
jer. oo. ;

Q: Does the fact that Mexico City Station
“ sent to Headquarters a cable reporting
Oswald's contact suggest that the sta-
tion considered the contact to be im-
portant? se , .
A: You are asking wha: is the significance
“of the cable? uo.

Q: Yes.

A: Well, operational, that is all. Here is
@ oo an American citizen, at least a man who
" appeared to be an smerican citizen, speak-
ing broken Russian and in contact with
the Embassy. This is of operational
interest. This is the kind of informa-
tion that we were directed among others,
to get: back to Washington because they
passed that kind 0° thing -to the Burea~

Q: Were contacts by Americans with the Soviet
Embassy considered to be unusual?

A: Well, we were 1963 then. - They were consi--

'. dered worhty of noze, let me put it that
way. Of course, fom an operational point
of view we were looking for any way we
could exploit a coitact with the Soviet
Embassy.

Q: Were such contacts by Americans frequent? '

. ; A: Not terribly frequ2nt. Not terribly fre-
C3 ' quent: There were members of the exile

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colony in Mexico City who were in kind
of routine contact with the Soviets, usu-
ally on cultural metters. No, I-would

4 say they were relaiively infrequent.
That is why-- ; oO

Q: The cable was sent’
A: Yes. 537/
The Chief of ‘the Sovizt Section testified on
this point also: | .

Q: Was this particular contact considered to.
be unusual or routine?

A: Routine. |

‘Q: Why ‘is that?

@ A: During the summer period, particularly,

. ; or toward the end of the summer period, .
a relatively large number of Americans,
for various reasors, made contact with
the Soviet Embassy). This appeared to
me, when I had the information reported,
to be just another case of an American
contacting the Embassy, for no signifi-
‘cant reasons...

Q: In each case that an American contacted
the Embassy, would a cable be sent to
Washington? .
“A: Yes, indeed. 538/ -
Mrs. Manell, the person who actually handled the
reporting, also considered the case to be routine:

“Q: Was the Oswald contact with the Soviet Embassy
considered to be unusual? ~

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Q: Why not?

A: Well, there were cases of other Americans
who contacted the Embassy for. various rea-
sons. We-were only obliged to report the
contact of any American with the Soviet
Embassy.

Q: So in Oswald's case it was just a routine
contact by an American as far as you were
concerned? .

A: Yes. .

Q: If that is’ the case, then why was the cable
‘sent concerning Oswald? ;

A: That is why I asked you earlier, because
‘in the case of Americans we were required
to send it by cable and not by dispatch.

@ . Q: Was that a written regulation?

A: I don't know if it was written but it was .
understood at our Station that any Americans . sre]
who were in touch with the Soviet vi

| that that fact hac to be known/to Headquar-
ters by cable. It was always sent that way,
whether we considered it very unimportant
or routine or not. So there must have.
been a regulation but I am not aware of. .
it. 539 ~
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The reader-shewld be reminded here that. the only

conversation that had been linked to.Oswald.at that point
in time was the one that occurred on 1 October.. 540/ The
other transcripts had passec over the Manells' and Good-

pasture’ s desk 541/ but had not been linked to Oswald.

i £3 because his name was ‘not mer tioned in _ then. Mrs. Manel}

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did not recheck the earlier “ranscripts, but did check

the Station's index system. to.see if it had any record

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of a Lee Oswald, which it did not. 542/ — [Vleed) iv

s(H)ere it says in orackets, comment
a: A(t the translator, "the same who phoned
a day or so ago ani spoke in broken
Russian.

A: Right.

Q: Despite this indication here I believe
your tesimony is that you did not go
back to check the transcript because
by virtue of your nemory you knew that
Oswald's name had not come up in any ear-
Vier. conversation, is that correct?

e A: Yes. 543/ .
: So, Ms. Manell drafted the first paragraph of the 10/8

cable on ‘the basis of the 1€/1/10:45 conversation alone
even though the other information was. available. 544/
‘That paragraph of the cable provided. an accurate summary
of the intercepted conversation. it said:

Acc (Soviet wiretap) 1 Oct 63, American
male who spoke broker Russian said his
name Lee Oswald (Phoretic); stated he
at Sovem on 28 Sept when spoke with Consul
whom he believed to te Valeriy Vladmiro-
vich Kostikov. Sujb asked Sov Guard Ivan
Obyedkov who answered, if there is anything
. new. re telegram to Washington. Obyedkov
' upon checking said nothing received yet,
: ; but request: had been sent. 545/

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cable. 546/.

This paragraph concerned a photograph that she.
had found in the production from one of the photosuveil- —

-Yance bases that covered the Soviet Embassy. 547/ This |

paragraph said:

Have photos male appears be American

entering Sovem 1216 hours, leaving

1222 on 7 Oct. Apparent age 35, athele-

tic build, circa 6 feet, receding hair-

line, bagfing top. kore Khakis and sport

shirt. ource: Faas 548/

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The explanation for nistakenly linking this photo-
graph to Oswald advanced by the CIA officers in Mexico -

: @ who had knowledge of the circumstances is that this was
the only photograph taken or October 1, the day that the
conversation occurred, that appeared to be cf a non-
Latin, and, hence, possibly an American. 549/ Weed Be..

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Q: Do you know how that photograph was
Tinked to the person mentioned? ~

A: By date. It was «aken entering the
Soviet Embassy and leaving on the
same date this conversation took
place. I remember: that proceding.

- because we were combing through the

‘ takes for that dav to determine any
“person who looked like an American
male. JI believe chis was the only

one. 550/
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, have been. checked for sever i]. days” prior tg the date. of

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the conversation.
Q: You checked the photosurveillance
materials for approximately a four
or five day period, is that correct?
A: Yes, I think it is. |
Q: During that four cr five day period...
this man was the cnly non-Latin ap-
pearing man whose photograph you
found, is that correct?
A: I think it was the only non-Latin ap-
pearing person's -hotograph that we
found that we could not identify as
somebody else. A lot of the people
who went to the Scviet Embassy all
. the time, we came to know who they
ho: 7 were. After they had been identi-
e@ fied, they made frequent visits there. “5ST/
The review of the phctoproduction from LIMITED |.
the one base that has been nade available to ‘this Commit-
tee, makes the explanation of the mistake about ‘the iden-
tity of the individual due io his being the only non-
Latin implausible. The record reflects that. unidentified
American males were listed on the 10g sheet as "UA M"
after the time was given. “he photograph that was linked
to Oswald was the only “U AM" that appeared on 2 October
1963. But on September 27, 1963 another "U AM" had ap-.

peared. The Committee has concluded from a review of a.

q .

a note that Ann Goodpasture wrote on the Tog sheet that

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the 10/8 cable was written. The note says: "This is |
| : a ‘Mexican named Gutierrez-- license plate changed in

Feb 64 to Mexican. " 552/

_ This Committee cannot be certain that other "U A M"s

neem

did not turn up on the production from the LILYRIC base

because that production ha:. not been made available

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for review.

. Ms. Goodpasture was asked about this and explained
og that the man, Gutierrez, wes known in the statiom and
that the base house agent vas mistaken in identifying
him as an American. 553/

e Bo This Committee finds the above quoted explanation
hard to accept for other. reasons. The October 1 transcript
does not indicate that Oswald visited the Embassy on

that day, however, it does indicate a visit on the pre-
vious Saturday. (35 4/ Even if he did visit, the Embassy
on-the first of October, the photograph referred to in
the cable was not taken until the second of October,.
1963. 555/ |

The. photographs from the one surveillance base
for 1, ‘2 and 3 October were on one roll of film and

one log sheet was prepared oy the base. The text of _

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the log sheet is in black type. The separate days cover-
age is set off by a row of red typed percentage (%)
marks. 556/
Ms. Goodpasture attempted to explain this mistake.

.Q: Looking at the log, can you now ex-
plain to the Committee why the cable
referred to a photograph taken on
October Ist when actually it was taken
on another day? ;

-A: If you look at the log here you see at
the top--it was just an oversight on -
the part of the person who was writing
that cable. It Icoks as though the date

: is 1 October, but if you read it very.
_ ' closely you see there are only two frames
@ 7 .that were shot on 1 October and 2 Octo-
ber, it starts up with fram number 3,
et cetera, et cetera, and there the shots

_occur.- That is tie only explanation
I can. give.

-Q: Is your explanation that whomever: refer-
red to the log siriply looked at the date
at the top of the page, the date being
October 1st, and «iid not see any reference
to the date October 2nd?

A: Right... 557/
"This Committee finds it implausible that Ann Good-
pasture, who had ‘the specif.c duty of "processing for.

operational leads all. Station photosurveil lance info per-

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woud make such. an oversight mistake and not discover
it until 1976. 558/ This Cornmittee- thinks that the fact
that the mistaken date of the photograph was not dis-
covered for so ‘long is especially suspect in light of |
the fact that.on the day after the assassination CIA.
Headquarters. sent a cable to Mexico which said:.
“"{FBI) says that photos of man entering
Soviet Embassy which 4EXI sent to Dallas
were not of Oswald. 2?resume MEX] has”
double-checked dates )f these photos and
is also checking all dertinent other
photos for possible siots of Oswald. 559/
Headquarter's preseumption w3s evidently mistaken. No
record exists that would indicate a reply to this eable
by the Mexico City Station. .

The likelihood that a photograph of Oswald was
indeed obtained makes the "explanation," proferred by
Goodpasture, et al., even more implausible. 560/ At

: this time the Committee can not conclude why the original

mistake was made even though it does find the explanation

offered by Goodpasture, et al., to be highly. implausable.

Regardless of why the mistake was made, Oswald's
contact with the Soviet Embassy and the mistaken photo-
ea. graphic identification of him were reported to Headquarters.

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1963. 561/ The cable, as wa: routine, went to the
Mexico Desk for action. 562/ The person who handled
the case for the Mexico Desk was Elsie Scaleti. 563/
Ms. Scaleti initially considered the information.
routine. 564/ She took the routine steps of request-
ing a name trace. 565/— From the name trace she learned
that there was a 201 file on a Lee Henry Oswald but
that it was restricted to a branch of the Agency known
as "CI/S1G." 566/ The custodian of Oswald's file,
in October 1963, was Ann Eli:abeth Goldsborough Egerter
of the Counter-Intelligence/ special Investigations °

@ Group. This group's purpose and interest in Oswald
is detailed in another section of ths final report deal-

ing with whether or not Lee )swald was an agent or asset

‘of the Central Intelligecne’ \gency. 567/

Ms. Scaleti went to M;. Egerter and asked to
see Lee Oswald's file which vas provided to her by Ms.
Egerter. 568/. Once the info-mation from the Oswald 201

and the information in the cible from Mexico. City was

combined, the Oswald contact took on more significance:

Q: Now, once the information...had been
obtained by you, did that in any way
inérease the significance of Oswald" s
contact with the Soviet, Embassy? :

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it very significant.

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A: Any American who hid: tried to renounce
his U.S. citizenship in the Soviet Union,
now having.again a relationship with ;
the Soviet Embassy would lead one to
wonder why he had iried to renounce his. citi-
zenship in the first place, and why he was
still in contact w th the Soviets, whether
there was a possib' lity he really was
working for the Soviets or what. 569/

Ms. Egerter remembers that the cable from Mexico

city caused a Tot of excitemmnt. She was shown the 10/9

cable.

Is this the cable-:hat cause the excitement?
Yes, one of-them.

: Why was excitement caused by this cable?

"Contact with Kostikov.'

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What is the significance of the contact with
Kostikov?

»>

I think we considered him a KGB man.

‘Any other reason for the excitement?

He had to be up to something bad to be so an-

xious to go to the Soviet Union. At least
that isthe way I felt. 570/ ‘

After reviewing Oswald’ s 201; which CI/SIG loaned

to the Mexican Desk where it reamined until the time of

i fo the assassination, Ms. Scaleti drafted a response to
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formation about Oswald to other branches ‘of the Ameri-
‘can intelligence community. 371/ These two documents,
were drafted at the same time and were sent within several
hours of each other. 572/ S:veral aspects of these
two documents are interestinj and illustrate various
points, as well as raise serious questions. .
The cable which Ms. Scaleti sent to Mexico says,
in full: |

1. Lee Harvey Oswald who called Sovemb 1
: Oct probably identical Lee Henry Oswald
—— ' (201-289248) born 18 October 1939, New
@ a Orleans, Louisiana, former radar ‘opera-
tor in United States Marines who de-
fected to USSR in Octy 1959. Oswald is
; five feet ten inches; one hundred sixty
Ne ; five pounds, : Night brown wavy hair, blue
eyes.

2. On 31 Oct 1959 he attempted to renounce
his United States citizenship to the
United States Embagsy in Moscow, indicat-
ing he had appliec for Soviet citizen-
ship. On 13 Feb the US emb moacon re- F
‘ceived an undated letter from swald — Ve
postmarked Minsk cn @Feb T1961 in which .
subj indicated he desired return of
his US ppt as wisted to return to USA. if.
"we could come to some agreement concern-
ing the dropping cf any legal proceedings
against me. On £& duly on his own ini-
tiative he appeared at the Emb with his
: . wife to'see about his return. to the States.
dey Sub stated that he actually had never ap-
ER . oo plied for Soviet citizenship and that his”

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application at that time had been to
remain in USSR and for temporary exten-

- sion of his Tourist visa pending out-
come of his request. This application,
according to Oswald, contained no ref
to Soviet citizenship. Oswald stated

that he had been enployed since 13
Jan 1960 in Belorussian Radio and TV
‘Factory in Minsk where worked as metal
worker in research shop. Oswald was mar-
ried on 30 April 1961 to Marina Nikolaevna
Pusakova, a dental technician born July:
1941 USSR. No HDCGS traces. He attemped
arrange for wife to join him in Moscow
so she could appeer at Emb for visa
interview. His Anerican ppt was returned
to. him. US Emb Mcscow stated twenty
months of realities of life in Soviet
Union had clearly had maturing effect on
Oswald. : —_ .

3. Latest HDQS info was (State Department) report
dated May 1962 saving (State) had determined
Oswald is‘still US citizen. and both he ‘and

_his Soviet wife have exit permits and Dept
State had given approval for their travel
with their infant child to USA.

4. Station should pa;s info ref and para one to
(U.S. Embassy, Fejeral Bureau of Investiga-
tion, Navy, and I:nmigration and Naturaliza-
tion) locally. Iifo paras two and three ori-.
ginates with (State). oe

5. Ref-and possible identification being dissemi-
nated to HDQS of (FBI, State, Navy and I&NS).
Pls keep HDQS advised on -any further contacts
or positive identification ‘of Oswald. 573/

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-Ms. Scaleti wrote this cable. 574/ Ms. Egerter

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i was one of the people who reviewed the cable for accuracy. 575/

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of Plans, Thomas karamessines. 576/

The teltype which Ms.5caleti wrote was sent to
the Department of State, the Federal Bureau of Investi-
“gation and the Department of the Navy. 577/ This tele-
‘type says: 7

1. On 1 October 1963 a reliable and sensitive
- source in Mexico reported that an American
male, who identified himself as Lee Oswald,
contacted the Soviet Embassy in Mexico
City inquiring whether the Embassy had re-
ceived any news concerning a telegram |
which had been sent to Washington. The -
_ American was described as approximately 35
: = . _ years old, with an atheletic build, about .
© six feet tall, with a receding hairline.

2. It is believed thet Oswald.may be identical
to Lee Henry Oswald, born on 18 October
1939 in New Orlears, Lousiana, a former U.S.
Marine who defected te the Soviet Union in.
October 1959 and ater made arrangements
through the United States Embassy in Moscow
to return to the Uinited States with his Rus-
sian wife; Marina Nikolaevna Pusakova, and
their child. | 7 -

3. The information in Paragraph One is being
disseminated to your representative in Mexico
City. Any furthe- information received is
. being made availa»le to the Immigration and
Naturalization Service. 578/

The first substantiv: conflict between these two
: documents are the dissimilar descriptions of Oswald. The
| é% _ responsé sent to Mexico gave a fairly accurate descrip-
; , tion of Oswald while the dissemination to other government %
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agencies gave the descripticn that had mistakenly been
connected to Oswald by the "0/9 cable from Mexico City. 579/
Ms. Egerter testified that «he could not explain why the
' description discrepancies ocurred. 580/ When Ms. Scaleti

was asked why this occurred she first responded ‘ft

there was a rule that preveited the Agency from dissem-

inating any information obtained from a third agency

of the government. 581/ Hence, the accurate desdipetion
of Oswald which. was from information furnished to the-

Agency by the State Department could not be included in

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@ a the dissemination. 582/ - It was pointed out to Ms.
Scaleti that the informaticn in the second .paragraph of”
the teletype was from the ‘tate Department sources and
that the Mexico City Station had been instructed to dis-
seminate the description. lucally which she claimed could

not be disseminated due to a third agency rule. She

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was asked the question again and the following exchange
occurred: .

-A. Let us start over again. The actual
physical description on Lee Henry Oswald f
from (the 10/10 cable) was sent to the

Station to assist them in further investi-~
gation to see if. they knew of anybody or
; had anybody down there that really fitted E
MN, what we thought was an accurate physical ~
A _ description of the Oswald that we had a

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file on.:.When we same to...the teletype
to State, FB] and Javy, we did not, and I
would not normally even today, provide
those investigativ: agencies with the
physical description of Lee Henry Oswald
as we thought it t) be then.

We provided them oily with our intelli-
gence, not with Stite Department intelli-
gence which gave tie stuff out about the
audio -and the possible physical descrip-.,
tion. The wording here in paragraph 1 on
our teletype...is worded that. the American
was described. As I told your man from
your Committee earlier, it possibly would
have been better, although it did not occur
to me at the time ind this is the way those
things were written in those times, to say
that an American d2scribed as this could
possibly be identifiable and qualified
but the normal procedure in 1963 was to
&. provide to the oth2r government agencies
information and intelligence from our
sources. Xx
: Were you aware when you sent out the cable
and the teletype that-you were giving differ-
ent descriptions?

eP.

A: Yes. I assume I was. I don't remember now.
. This is some time ays age.

Q: Was there any intention of your part to de-
ceive any other agencies by giving a descrip-
tion contained in that paragraph in the tele-
type?

A: None at all. 583/.

Ms. Scaleti was interviewed by Committee staff mem-

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bers on 3/30/78. She was questioned, as she indicates

poe in theVabovg?quote) at that time about the description
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discrepancy. When Ms. Scatest was shown the 10/9
cable on that occasion she sated that. She would not have
taken the description of the individual in paragraph two

' to be a description of Oswald. 584/ + The description
discrepancy was specifically pointed out to Ms. Bustos
and she was specifically questioned on that point. . The
report of that interview says: | .

We next pointed out t) Ms. Scaletti the
fact that the respons: to Mexico had a
. ‘correct description of Oswald and the dis-
to ' gemination had an incorrect one. She said
. ; that the info in the first paragraph of the |
@ - dissemination came from MEXI 6453 and that,
} . explained the incorrect description. We -
pointed out to her the fact that she had the
‘correct description and that had already
told us that she did not associate the de-
scription in 6453 with Gswald, and that she
had said that the cable and teletype had been
prepared simultaneously by, three knowledgable
people. She said, first, that the correct
‘description would not have been put in the
dissemination because it came from the file
review. I pointed out that all of the infor- .
mation in the second paragraph of the dissemina- ~
tion was from the file review. She responded
‘that they had not been sure that the “Lee Os-
wald" referred to in 6453 was the same as "Lee
_ Henry Oswald" on whon they had a file, hence
. they would not have fad included a description
from 6453 that she did not think was connected
to Oswald. She said that it had obviously
; been a mistake that coesn't matter now, but
Poe . if she had it to do cver again, she would not
| ‘4 i a _ put any description in the dissemination be- —
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the man who identifies himself as Lee Oswald at
the Embassy in Mexico. 585/. ©

The second point of itterest that is illustrated
by the 10/10 cable and teletype is the inference that can
be made from reviewing paragraph 3 of the teletype, para-
graph 5 of the cable, and Thomas Karamessines signing
off on the cable, that the CIA was asking for, and pro-
mising, a further investigation of Oswald without a speci-

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fic request from any ‘other_covernment agency ~he might
ther-covernment agency tf

_ have had, as the '77 IGR says, "investigative esponsibility.

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A e Chief ‘Of the Soviet Section in Mexico City

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recognized such a routine irvestigative responsibility as
part of the normal course oi his duties. We ati tek :

One of our responsib: lities was to assist
the FBI in identifying people who might be- .
come Soviet agents, particularly in America. 586/

“As a matter of fact, the Chief of the Branch of
the CIA responsible for the Mexican operations at ‘Head-
quarters thought this was one of the Mexico City Station’ s

strongest and most successfil areas of endeavor.
They (Americans) wer? detected enough so
that J..Edgar Hoover used to glow every
. : time that he thought of the Mexico City.
bee - . Station. This.was one of our outstanding
ae areas of cooperation | with the FBI. 587/

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The request for further investigation and dis-
semination contained in paragraph 5. of the 30/10 cable to
Mexico was the reason that.the cable was sent to the
Assistant Deputy Director of Plans for release. 588/

“The Chief of the Mexico Branch was questioned extensively
on this point: +

A: Well, it went up to Mr. Karamessines be-
cause it involved disseminating information
on an American citizen to the U.S. government
agencies, you see. At that time--probably .
still--the CIA dic not investigate or pass
around informatior on American citizens un-
less it were requested to by another govern-

1 ment agency, either in that particular case
. or by some standard operating procedure.

@ , In other words, tle CIA seeing an American
abroad, observing an American abroad, observ-
ing an American atroad engaging in some
skullduggery, wou'd inform the responsible
U.S. agency here ind sit and wait for instruc-
tions before doing anything further. In
this case, ‘we were passing on information.
to other U.S. government agencies in Mexico
City and this probably went to other places
in Washington. as well.

Q: This particular information was disseminated
to other agencies.without a request of any
such agency. Is chat correct?

A: Yes.

Q: This fit into the other category of cases
where disseminations were made? . .

A: Disseminations woild be made to other interested

Poy” agencies, and any information we came across
ON, had action taken to follow up to take investi- oo
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gative steps. Dissemination would only be taken
if another agency reqiested it, either specifically
in that case, or, unless it were a part of standard

operating procedure, _ vhich would have been agreed
upon with another ageicy.

Q: Was any follow-up action contemplated niatthe
10/10) cable?.«. ;

A: Yes. "Please keep He idquarters advised of any
further contacts or for positive identification
“of Oswald."

Q: That would be conside-ed follow- up?

A: Yes. they were instricted to stay alert and report
any further evidence >f this man's presence. There-.
fore, Mr. Karamessines had to sign off on it.

Q: Mr. Karamessines had to sign off on it because
follow-up action was contemplated? ;

: With regard to a U. S. citizen. abroad.

Q: For: purposes, of clarification, I think you said
that there were two situations where Mr. Karamessines-
would have to sign off. One would be where another
agency requested the jJissemination?

A: Yes. No--not the question of the dissemination.
It is.a question of orerational action being taken.

Q: A request for operational action. What is the second
.example? ;

A: Well--

Q: Would the “Agency itself decide to take operational
- action?

A: Ordinarily, operational action in an ordinary case
. would not require Mr. Karamessines approval at all.
bow. - It was only because a1 American citizen was involved.

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this individual from another U.S. government

agency or it might come about because of a standard
operating procedure.

For example, we had an agreement with the
FBI that we would follow up leads on any American

citizen in Mexico City who appeared around the
Soviet Embassies, and.so on, or anybody who was

down there appearing to defect, which we might
learn through our telephone intercepts.

We could just as well have sent this cable

‘out without Mr. Karmessines releasing it. I do

not know why we did it.

Q: In fact, you pcinted to something which I was
going to ask ycu about. I was wondering why
somebody as hich up in the Agency as Mr. Kara-
messines was tke releasing officer.

A: I would have been because of the U.S. citizen
aspect, because so many other U.S. Government
agencies were ‘nvolved, State Department, FB]
and the Navy. I suppose ‘one of these things
is the Navy. (ne of them could be the Immigra-
tion and Natur: lization Service.’ ;

Q: Let me attempt to summarize again. ‘Karamessines
would be responsible for signing off on this
because operat onal action pertaining to an
American was taken?

A: Yes.

Q: Either pursuan: to the request of another go-
Vernment agency or pursuant to some standard
operating procedure of the Agency itself.

A: Yes. .

Q: Any other reason that you can think of?

A: No.. —

Q: I believe you TRE

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or an agreement, with the FBI that any activities
by Americans around the Soviet.or Cuban Embassy
would be reported and followed up on by the ‘Agency.
Was that agreement ain writing?

A: 1 do not know. It probably was in writing some-
where. It antedated my tenure, and the agreement
was not in the files. It would-have been in the
files of the DDP or of the Cl Staff. 589/

The Chief of the Mexico Branch hence believes that

further investigation of Oswald was requested by CIA -
Headquarters without ‘the. prior expression of interest

from another government agercy with "investigative respon-

sibility.’ This. request for “operational activity" concern-
© . ing an American abroad is ailvanced as the reason for the

Assistant Deputy Director oo”) 6Plans signing off on the

cable. Even though ‘the cable was brought.to Karamessines’
“attention and he did sign off on it, Mr. Scelso told this

Committee that that was not necessary due to.a- standing

agreement with the FBI under which the CIA had agreed to .
investigate Americans in Mexico in contact with the Soviet ¢
Embassy without any specific request from another agency. 590/
This recollection is corroborated by other testimony and :
documents.. 591/ Elsie Scaleti also recalled that it would

not have been necessary, int 1963, to bring such a. request :
i f 7 ‘for operational action to the ADDP' s attention. 592/ She

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attention did not have to do with the request for operational

‘action, but because Oswald's contact was considered impor-
tant enough to merit his att2ntion:

Q: Why would someone as 1igh up in the organiza-
tion as Karamessines isk to be the releasing
officer of this particular cable?

-A: IT can only surmise now that I might have thought
or what several of us might have thought at
the time, that since it involved somebody of

_ this nature who had tried to renounce. his citi-

zenship, who was in the Soviet Union, married
to a Soviet, got out with a Soviet wife pre-
sumably, which is very strange, and now the con-
tact with the Soviets, we could have a security,
a major security problem. This was one way of
informing him and getting attention at the
higher level. 593/

Even though the CIA denies éuch an agreement (if it
was in writing) that covered the CIA's investigation of
American citizens in Mexico, this Committee is certain,
on the basis of the above detailed evidence, that such’
an agreement existed, either formally or informally. 594/
Hence, the-assertion in the 1977 IG report that "Oswald

was not an investigative responsibility of the CIA" 595/
is seemingly inaccurate and misleading.
This Committee has attempted to determine what
actions, if any, were taken by the CIA's Mexico City Sta-
tion after Headquarters responded to the initial report

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respect, two assertions of the '77 IGR are important:
1) that it was not discovered’ that Oswald was seeking a
visa to Russia and that he hid also been in contact with
the Cuban ‘Embassy until Novetiber 22, 1963; and 2) that
the Station did “nothing other than ask Headquarters
on 15 October for a photograph of Oswald" because no
ofher. government agency had mide an official request for
further information. 596/-° tt has” already been shown
that the "official request” chat the Agency claims was
not forthcoming was, in fact, not necessary and that,
as a matter of fairly routin: operating procedure, the
CIA Headquarters requested'a follow-up on the information
already reported about Oswal i. It has also been shown .
that the Oswald matter, afte- the name trace.was done
at Headquarters, was considered to be fairly significant
by the Headquarters officials involved. . In this regard,
dt shoutd be pointed out -that Headquarters communicated
its concern to Mexico by requesting in paragraph 5 of
DIR 74830 more information on Oswald. It should also
-be noted that the CIA Headquarters also, by notifying
the interested government agencies that “Any further in-
formation received on this subject will be. furnished. to.

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making an official. request for further action. Hence»
“the excuse offered for the c aimed lack of action by the
Mexico Station is invalid and the question becomes 1) whe-
ther or not that Station did any follow-up; 2) whether
they did discover additional information about Oswald
prior to the assassination; 3) whether that information,
if any, was reported in an accurate and expeditious man-
ner; and 4) if it was not resorted, what was the reason
for the failure to report.
| ‘The Mexico city Station received DIR 74830 on
e i 7 October 1963. ° The Mexico City copy of this cable is
. in Lee Harvey Oswald's Mexico City "P" file along with
the Station routing slip. There are several interesting
aspects to this copy of the cable and there is evidence
that provides indications of the Stations’ actions and
“the timing of those actions. .
. There are several marginal notations on this docu-
ment. “Perhaps the most interesting is the notation "Sic"
with an arrow ‘drawn to the 'Henry" in the name "Lee Harvey
Oswald. " That notation was: made by Win Scott when he
read the cable on the day it was received in Mexico. 598/
This notation struck Commitee investigators as very,

: 0 strange because it was a posible indication that. Win, a
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Scott knew, at the time the cable was received, that Lee

Oswald's middle name was not “Henry.” David Phillips

was questioned about that possibility:

. Q: Do you have any reason to believe that when
this cable was received in October of 1963 Mr.
Scott knew that cable's reference to Lee
Harvey Oswald was incorrect? -

A: No, I don't recall that, but reading this ob-
viously at whatever time he wrote that "sic"
on there he felt it was incorrect or he would
not have spotlighted it that way. But I‘don't
have any recollection. I don't have any re-
collection that wekncw before this cable came
back down that.it was Lee Harvey Oswald. 599/

The explanation most oft2n advanced was that Mr.

@ Scott often used the symbols "Sic" and “aka” interchang-
eably and that all he was indicating here was that the
"Lee Oswald" from tne. taps wis alsoto:be indexed and
filed under the additional name "Lee Henry Oswald."

- 600/ Mr. Phillips was also asked about this explanation:

PS Wawe sete

Q: Was Bee kind of individual. that would have
interchanged or used interchangeably the words,
the letters "aka" and "sic" interchangeably

“as having the sdme meining? Do you appreciate
that? ; ;

- A: Yes. I don't think s>. He was an intellectual.
His great secret was that he wrote poetry. He

didn't want anyone else to know. that. He was

very well educated, extremely well read, and no,

he is not the kind of man--.

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A: He would appreciate tie distinction between the
two. 601/

If Mr. Scott did in fact make this notation prior to

_the assassination of John Ke inedy, this Committee has not

been able to determine why "sic" was used. 602/

The description of Oswald is marked on this cable with
a double black line, a check mark and the notation "24
years old" in Ann |, Goodpastyur2 s hand- -writing. 603/ - At

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this point at least Ms. “Goodpasture and Allan White, the .

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DCOS, realized that the photograph they had described

in MEXI 6453 was not of Oswald. 604/ But this realization
was evidently not shared by all the officers in the sta-
tion.- Ms.. Goodpasture remembers that there was some con-
troversy in the station about whether the man described .
in the 10/11 cable was the same man who had been picked
up by the Station's photographic surveillance. Ms. Good-

pasture remembers that she believed, based on the cable,

-that-the photograph reported in MEXI 6453 was not of Os-

wald. She said that she argued over the identification

. . . Nw 4
with Win Scott and that he said, “Oh, that may be incor-

rect “and so forth. But there was some quibbling over .
it.” 605/
The routing slip on the 10/11 cable indicates some of

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: the dates when subsequent Me<ico City Station ‘actions
Coke Ve
occurred. ‘Ms. Goodpasture ndted. that "We should ask

| HQ for photo. No?" Barbara Manel] noted that the dis-
. semination requested by Paragraph 4 of the cable was ;
done on 15. October 1963. Win Scott wrote, "Please set
up "P" file on Lee Henry OSWALD and put all data we
have into it. Photos?" 606/ The document was sent to
the files on 15 October 1963. 607/ Hence, we know that
Oswald's Mexico "P" file was opened on or about 15 Octo-
ber 1963 and that Win Scott asked that "all" informa-
@ tion be included in the file. There is’ substantial rea-
, son to believe that most, i1 not all, of the information
available to the Station wa: incorporated into the file
-at that time. 608/
The 10/11 cable greatly increased the significance

of Oswald's contact with the Soviet Embassy in the eyes.
q .

of the Mexico City Station just as the name trace results

reported by that cable had inade the matter more signifi-
cant to the officers involved at Headquarters. 609/

This cable aroused the Station's operational interest
in Oswald. Melk pnd. oo ze gurore-)

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contact with ‘the Soviet Embassy?

A: Oh, ‘yes, sure, it did. The fact that he had that
kind of background. Sure, he became someone. of
considerable operational interest. Again, there
was nothing Other than operational interest.

Q: In all lik{ihood tha: cable would have prompted

‘the people at the stution to 80 ‘back and look at
the earlier. transcripts?

A: Yes, I would think so. 610/

This Committee believes that Station personnel did,

between October 11] and Octoher 15, go back and recheck
the transcripts and connect the important substantive
calls to Oswald. Under noriial operating procedures a
“tape of Oswald! s calls. to the Soviet Embassy should not
have been erased until 16 O:: tober, 4 to 5 days after

_the case took on added sign: ficance. 611/' The | one trans-
cript of the call on 10/1/63 that had definitely been

_ linked to Oswald prior to receipt of the 10/11 cable bore
a reference to. an earlier conversation by a man who
"spoke broken Russian, the text of the 10/1 call allowed.
that the prior call had propably occurred on September 28,

1963. 612/ It should have been possible. at that point

to compare the tapes. to see if they were ‘in fact the same

bo. caller. Indeed, a notation made by. Ann Goodpasture on a

newspaper article in 1964 suggests that this was the case.

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The notes says.

The caller from the Cuban Embassy was uniden-

tified until HQ sent traces on Oswald and voices

compared by (Tarasoff.) 613/

The cable traffic after the assassination confuses
this point. rather than clarifies it. This will be dealt
with in more detail in a subsequent section. An examina-
tion of documents in Lee Harvey Oswald's Mexico City Sta-
tion P file and.the cable traffic from Mexico City to
Headquarters after the assassination, raised-a possibility
that at least one tape of Cswald's voice existed as late
as 16 October 1963. 614/ oo |
@ _ Assuming. that the 10/1/63 call in which an individual

a ‘identifies himself as "Lee Oswald" was handled in an ex-
 pedited manner, the tape ard the transcript would have

been in the Station by the following day at the latest. 615/

If the tape had been held for the normal two-week reten-

tion period, it would have been erased on or about 16.

‘October. The tape fromthe 9/28/63 conversation would

have probably been in the :.tation by the first or second.
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of October at the latest. 616/ Ae would not have normally

been erased until on or about 16 October. atso. It seems

; clear that the tapes, unde~ normal procedures would have

been retained until at least 7

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‘October. An examination of he documents does not clarify
“this question but rather adds confusion to the issue.
Several documents and calles deal with the tapes and
a voice comparison of the re:orded Conversations. In
Oswald's "p" file there is a newspaper clipping of an
article: from the 21 October 1964 Washington Post The
article, by Robert S. Allen ind Paul Scott, is entitled

"CIA Withheld Vital Intelligence from Warren Commission. "
One paragraph from that article says:

The investigators also are trying to determine

why the CIA in its: preassassination report to
@ ; . the State Department on Jswald's trip to Mexico
City gave details only of the defector's visit .
to the Russian Embassy and not the Cuban Embassy.
The CIA did not report the latter visit until after
Kennedy's assassination in Dallas.

- Next to that paragraph Ann Goodpasture wrote:

' The caller from the Cuban Embassy was unidenti-
fied until HQ sent traces on Oswald-and voices:
compared by (Tarasoff). 617/

That statement is very: clear in saying that a voice
comparison was made. The cable traffic that went from
Mexico to CIA. Headquarters after the assassination is

not so clear.

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on 23 November, the CIA leadquarters asked the
Mexico City Station to send “he full transcripts of Os-—
wald's conversations and “or ginal tapes if available"
“to Headquarters as ‘soon as possible by a special courier. 618/
On that same day, Ann Goodpa::ture sent a cable to Head-
quarters reporting the 9/28/1533 conversation. That cable
| said, in part, "Station unable compare voice as first
tape erased prior receipt ¥é second call." 619/— Later
‘that same day Ms. Goodpastu-e wrote another cable which
Said:
: (Tarasoff) who did transcriptions says Os-
r wald identical with person para one speak-
ing broken Russian who called from Cuban

Embassy 28 September to soviet Embassy. 820/

The next day the Mexico. lity Station informed Headquarters

that it had been unable to locate any tape of Oswald's.
‘voice. "Regret complete recheck shows tapes for this

period already erased." 621/

The statement. in MEXI 7023 that a voice comparison
“was not possible because of the first tape being erased
prior to the second tape being received is: inconsistent
with the statements made in testimony and in other cables 622/

and with the procedure then in effect at the station at

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unlikely that a tape would be held only one or two days,.
the situation that is implied by the-statement in MEXI 7023.
The other statements by ls. Goodpasture in the cables
and on the newspaper article; clearly indicate that a

voice comparison was made. 1s. Goodpasture was. questioned

about this, :

Q: To your knowledge, was a voice ‘comparison -
ever made between the tapes to deterimne -
whether the same person was speaking in-
each one?

A: I do not know. 1 did not make. one. I do
'" not know whether someone else made one or
not. There is a transcript, a cable here,

© in which. the transcriber of the Soviet tape
says that it is the same voice, which would
lead one to believe that he made a voice
comparison, but it just may have been that
he, from his memory, came to that conclu-
sion. 624/

Q: On the lower vighthard corner of the newspaper
-article that is contzined there, marked off
with a dark line is @ paragraph. Kindly |
read that paragraph, starting with the words

"The -investigators..
(Pause.-)
A: This would suggest--.

-Q: One moment.

A: --Tarasoff compared “he voices on a tape of October.
co Q: Whose handwriting appears?
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Q: That indicates that tre caller--could you please
read that to us. Reai what you wrote that day.

A: “The caller from the Suban Embassy was unidenti-
fied until Headquarters sent traces on Oswald."
Now, that would have deen in. answer to the cable.

_ that was dated 8th October. I believe their cable
was 18 October, "and voices compared by Feinglass."
Feinglass was the pesudonym used by Tarasoff.

In fact, that indicatas--

A: He compared the Cuban Embassy voices with the
others, with Oswald's call, in which he used his
name, — .

Q: When would that have happened?

A:-I said 18 October because I thought that was the
- date of the cable. 10 October. -625/

~ e@ - Boris Tarasoff testified that he had not been queried

at all about Oswald in 1963 and that he had not done a voice
comparison. 626/ Herbert Manel] testified that Farasoff .
did not do a voice comparison but’ connected the two con-
versations in his marginal comments in the transcripts. on
the basis of memory. 627/

Whether or not Mr. Tarasoff or someone else did a

voice comparison of the tapes, it is likely that the tapes

did exist until at least the 16th of October and would
to have been available for such a comparison. It is possi-

- ble that the connection between the 10/1/63 call and

i ‘on the 9/28/63 call was made on _the : pasts of Mr. Tarasoff's’ oh"

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memory. In any event the record clearly indicates that
the tapes should have been avilable, ‘and probably were
available; as late as 16 Oct»ber 1963. 628/ This is
significant because it was after receipt of the 10/10 ca-
ble from Headquarters that tie Oswalc case took on a

more than routine coloring.

The incréased significance that the Oswald
visit took on during the period from October 11 to Octo-
@ ber 16, 1963, could have provided the station with reason .,
. to retain the Oswald tapes. 629/ 7 |

Ms. Goodpasture was asked what became of the Oswald

tapes, >
Q: What happened to that tape containing Oswald: s
voice?

A: What happened? ;
. 2? Ves. .
Q: What happened to that tape; yes?
A: 1 do not know.
Q: Do those tapes exist today?
- A: What? |
- Q: Do those tapes exist: today?
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Q: Are you aware of the fact that, after the as-

- sassination, it has been alleged that some
tapes were given to tte FBI to listen to and
that it was said that ‘these tapes contained
Oswald's voice on: them:

A: Someone asked me about that, but I do. not think

- that I had those tapes. 1 -do not remember if
I did, and I was not tware that we gave any to
the FBI. I do not know whether Mr. Manell got
tapes from Mr. Taraso’ f and passed them to the
FBI, or if the Chief of Station or Deputy passed
anything to the FBI. I just do not know. 630/

On the whole most CIA off cers who testified stated
that, if a tape of Oswald's voice existed at the time of
_ the assassination, they did not know anything at all about
e@ a it. 631/ One CIA officer, tie Chief of the Branch respon-

sible for Mexico, testified that he believed the tapes
did exist at the time of the assassination:
a -Q: Were they able to locate the original tapes?
I think so.
: Do you recall what was done with ‘those tapes?

> No..

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A: I never heard them. |
A: You never heard them?
A: No. : |
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A: I had the impression chat after the assassination
they did a Tot of traiscribing. I may be wrong. fh
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Q: Let us look at (MEXI 1025, ) Paragafrph four
there, which indicate; that the person who did
the transcript and savs, "Oswald is identical
‘with the person in an earlier paragraph who
spoke broken Russian and called on 28 September."

That indicates that’ some sort of a voice compari -
.$on was made, .- a

A: Yes. Tapes were probably still in existence. 632/

The Tarasoffs do not remember ever doing, or being
asked to, do, a voice comparison of the Oswald tapes. 633/
But the evidence, albeit circumstantial, seems to indi-
cate that the tapes were in existence and that the voices

© were compared by someone. 63«/ Herbert Manell suggested
. that Tarasoff may have confirmed the fact that the two
‘calls were made by the same jerson by memory after re-
‘ceipt of the 10/11 cable. §3'/

However, the Station made. the connections, whether by
voice comparison and/or by comparison of the substantive
information in the 10/11 cab’e to the substantive informa-
tion in the transcripts, the conversations were linked to
Oswald prior to the assassinetion and probably by the

time that the "P" file. was-o;ened on or about 16 October |

1963. 636/ Ms . Goodpasture vas also asked. about this:

1 i .

f (co: Q: On October Tst, you found ‘out that Oswald wR
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; Saturday. Was any effort made to check
your materials from the surveillance opera-
tion, the photographic surveillance opera-

- tion, or from the telephonic surveillance
Operation to get additional information
on this? .

A: I do not know whether I checked it immediately
' or not at this stage. I do know that they were
checked thoroughly ai ter the assassination. In
fact, I think they were checked thoroughly after
the ‘information Sane. back from Washington iden-
tifying a Lee Oswald. 637/

On October 15, 1963, a ‘pm file was “opened on

Oswald. 638/ That same day the CIA Mexico City Station

—_ - requested that Headquarters send them a photograph of
@ Oswald. 639/ On that date also Ms. Manel drafted a
. local. dissemination memo reyarding Oswald's contact with
the Soviet Embassy. 640/ By this date at least the 10/1/

10:45 call, the 9/28/11:51 :all, the 9/27/4:05 call,

and: the 9/27/4:26 call had >een linked to Oswald. 641/
On 16 October 1963 the nemorandum drafted by Ms.
Manell was circualted at th2 U. S. ‘Embassy. It said:

1. The following information was received from
- a usually reliable and extremely sensitive
source: On 1 October 1963, an American male
contacted the Soviet Embassy and identified
himself as Lee OSWALO. This officer (sic)
determined that OSWALD had been at the Soviet
Embassy-on 28 September 1963 and had talked
: _ with Valeriy Valdimirivoch KOSTIKOV, a mem-
i (§ ber of the Consular Section, in order to learn —
se if the Soviet Embassy had received a reply
Ji - from Washington concerning his request. We

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have no clarifying information with regard to
this request.

' 2. Our Headquarters has informed us that the
OSWALD above is probaoly identical with Lee
Henry OSWALD, born on 18 October 1939, in
New Orleans, Louisiani, a former radar opera-
tor in the U. S. Mariie Corps who defected
to the Soviet Union ii October 1959,

3.. This office will advise you if additional
; information on this mitter is received. 642/

| When Ms. Manell was asked why she had stated that it
had been “determined” that Oswald had been in contact
with the Soviet Embassy on 23 September she said that:
it must have been -because sh» had rechecked the trans-

© -cripts by this time as othervise she would not have

used such certain language. 343/ When asked why the 10/16
. - memo said that there was ‘no -larifying information on

Oswald's "request" when it wis known by this time that

he was seeking a visa, Ms. Minel] said that "They had no

need to know all those other details” 644/

‘There are no indications that any other actions were
taken by the Mexico City-Sta:ion prior to the assassina-

tion. 645/

Even though the Station’; actions after the 10/11
cable were not highty extensive, it is inaccurate and

misleading to say that those actions were limited to re-

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‘questing a photograph of Oswald from Headquarters. o-
ther actions included rechecking the transcripts and
discovering the substantive ones. that concerned Oswald
and reporting the informaticn in MEXI 6453 and DIR 74830
to various components in the U.S. Embassy in Mexico
City ina misleading manner. ‘Hence, the fact that Os-
wald was seeking a visa and had been in contact with
the Cubans as well ‘as the Russians was known prior to
the assassination, and the Station's actions prior to
the assassination were more compretiensive than merely

Yd] requesting a photograph; al:chough if any action other
than a file check was taken. no record of that action
has been made available to this Committee.

It is unlikely, but possible, that this information

that was. developed by the Mexico City Station after 10/11/63

was reported to Headquarters. Elsie Scaleti pointed

out that a report of this additional information on

Oswald's activities in Mexico “would ‘have been expected.” .
646/ Ms. “Scaleti's belief that the information should . :
have been reported to Headquarters is shared for identi-

cal reasons by. her superior at Headquarters. 647/ :

7 a The testimony from the people involved, both at head-

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Quarters and in Mexico, while often uncertain, is’ gen-
erally, that thy do not remeiiber that such a cable was
sent. Ms. Scaleti said that she could not recall that
Mexico had sent any other in’ormation to Headquarters
prior to the assassination, but added, I "could not
swear to that." 648/ The head of the Mexico Branch
at Headquarters was certain “hat this information was
reported but he could not recall the form of the report

or whether. it occurred before or after the assassination. 649/

Robert Shaw first. testified “chat, to hiss knowledge, the
@ ; information was not reported prior to the assassination
and then added "but I would have no way of knowing. "
650/ The Deputy Chief of Station in Mexico, Mr. Allan
White, was also unsure on ths point:
oe LOJi4
Q: Abid they ever indicate to Headquarters that
Oswald had been to the -Cuban Embassy as well
as to the Soviet Emba:: sy and that he wanted
a visa? .

; A: I would have: to assum: that they did. - I
. . realize that "assume" is a bad word.

Q: You don't have personal knowledge one’ way or
- another?

A: No, prior to the assassination I would ‘not. 651/

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Q:. But Headquarters was iever appraised of that
voice comparison? oe

A: I think they were in i cable.
A: Prior to the assassination?

A: No, I do not think th2y were Prior to the assas-
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on each tape and.ther2 is no follow-up to head-
quarters, even though Headquarters clearly consi-
dered this to be significant?

A: The follow- up was mad2> by disseminating this
information from the traces locally and trying
to identify Oswald, trying to locate the man.
That is the way the follow-up was made. We
thought that he may still be in Mexico.

. @ — Q: The point is, however, that ‘upon the making ‘of
, _ @ voice comparion, if, in fact, that was done,
OO that information was not communicated to anyone.

A: I do not know if it was or not. You. would have
to check the file comoletely, the cable traffic,
to see if it was. To the best of my knowledge,
it was not: until after the assassination.»

Q: In fact, headquarters did ‘not know that he had .
also been ‘to. the Cuban Embassy? :

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A: At that point, no.
Q: At. least, according to your recollection, it was

not until after the assassination that Headquarters
was informed of that rage?

A: That.is probably right. ,§52/

Only one person. who was interviewed by this Committee

was certain of her recollection. Ms«. Barbara Manell was

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Q: It does not strike you as more significant
. that the American con:acts the Soviet Embassy
and he also contacts che Cuban Embassy? To
me that would. make hit seem more significant
and therefore, if you found out about this
after the time the (f rst) cable was sent you
would have sent another cable.

A: I did not send anothe: cable but I _know another.
- cable was sent. .I didn't send it.

Q: Another cable concern’ ng Oswald was sent? . .
A: I think so. Where is the whole file? Wasn' 't

r _ there a cable saying | le was in touch with the
- Cuban Embassy? ;

We have not seen. one.

I am pretty such there. was.

Did you send that cab e?

No, 1 did not send th: cable. When I found out
about it I remember this, 1 said how come?

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might have. She migh: have sent a follow- up one

with this. information 653/

The staff of this Commitee suggested that Mr. Phil-

lip's clear recollection of involvement in reporting

Cy - Oswald's visit to the Cuban imbassy and that he was seeking .
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Mexico at the time that the first cable was sent, 654/

could possibly be an indication that he is recalling a
second cable. When asked atout this, Mr. Phillips

stated that he had no knowledge of a second cable sent

prior to the assassination. 655/
Some corroboration of Ms. Manell's assertions were -
found in the materials from Win Scott's safe. Cu2e:

« &(0)n page 777 of (the Warren) report the
erroneous statement was made that it was not
; ms known that Oswald had v.sited the Cuban Em- y 3s
@ bassy until after the a: sassination: {Every — no vrs

piece of information coucering Lee Harvey Os- Ve’

wald was reported immediately after it was
received to: U. S. Amba;sador Thomas C.

Mann, by memorandum; th: FBI.Chief in Mexico,
by Memorandum, and to my headquarters by cable;
and included in each ani every one of these
reports was the conversition Oswald had, so

far as it was known. Tiese reports were made
on all his contacts witi both the Cuban Con-

sulate and with the Soviets. 656/

If the cable was sent ‘it is not in the files made
available to the HSCA by the CIA.

The head of ‘the Mexico Branch admitted that the
information should have been reported and that, if it

had been, the Oswald case would have been handled dif-

corer pen
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Had the information concerning Oswald's visit

: to the Cuban Embassy in addition to the Soviet

one, that Oswald had »een requesting a visa,
if it had been sent t) CIA headquarters, would
his case prior-to the assassination have been

“handled in

A: It would have been in the case of dissemina-.
tion of information arout him, but I do not

think that

taken to apprehend hin or to contact him or
to try to force him bick to the United Statés.

Ou)
Q: he would the diss2mination have been
treated differently?

any. differ2nt manner?

any Operational action would have

A: Well, it- simply Means that we vould. have dis- Ss
seminated any additioial information that we ;
. got. 657/
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not this additional information about Oswald was reported

to Headquarters.

of the Mexico Desk was asked whether or not the Station
“was ever criticized for this failure to report in the

face of a specific request t) do so by CIA Headquarters.

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legal manipulations of society, secretly.

We were running, at that time, a vast poli-
_ tical action program in 4exico City to try to
; ; swing Mexico around from its. Leftist direction
— ‘. ~ to amiddle of the. road jJirection and it succeeded.

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I do not know.whether you informed yourself about

the magnitude of our political action program at

the time--absolutely enormous.
We were trying to follow the Soviets and

all the satellites ard the Cubans. At the same.

time, the: main thrust of the Station's effort

was to attempt to recruit Russians, Cubans and

satellite people. 65% /

Perhaps the nature o* the CIA Mexico City Station's
handling of the Oswald case prior to the assassination
can best be summed up in Dive Phillips: response when
he was asked how he would’ :haracterize that handling:

"At the very best, it is not professional, at the best." 659/

V. Mexico City Station Reporting of Information Concerning

Oswald After the Assassination
A. Reporting of information concerning the photograph

of the Mexico Mystery Man

Even though some pecple inthe Station clearly dis-

_associated the photograph that was described ‘fa, Mex 6453 - 6
- from Oswald after receivirg the 10/11 cable, 656/.it is: _
clear that some people st‘11 considered it possible for
some reason that the photograph was of Oswald. In Octo- 6

ber, Ann Goodpast re had argued this very point with Win-

at,

ston Scott. 657/ On the Jay‘ of the assassination, the
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Sovemb 28 Oct who could be identical with Oswald.” 658/
The date was later corrected to read 1 October. eh220/—

Mrs Scott was not the only person in the Mexico Station.

Nantucnua “

"who still thought that the. photo could possibly be

Seen

Oswald. Mr. Manel] testified on this pointy?
, Q: As of the ‘day of the assassination, you
4 thought that there was still a possibility
3 that there was a photograph of Oswald?

‘ A: Indeed. As I recall, we tried to get that
© photograph to headquarters as fast as we -
could. As it turned out it wasn't neces- ,
Sary to send it. But -fet was our intention. 660/
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The photograph was sent to Dallas where Special Agent.

r Odum of the FBI showed it to Mrs. Marguerite Oswald on

23 November 1963. 661/. Mrs: Oswald would later claim |
4] it was a photograph of Jack Ruby, 662/ beginning a peried
| of controversy arid uncertainty about this photograph that
- . has continued to this day. Tne interaction of the Warren
: Commission and the CIA on this : question is detailed
‘in another section of this reoort. On 23° November. Mexico

informed Headquarters that “ke obvious photos sent to Dallas

were not ‘iden with Lee Oswald. ". 663/ Since the time of ©

“Koleeee

the assassination, this man his ‘been identified as Yuriy -

Ivanovich Moskalev, a Soviet: <6B officer. The identifica-

i.€3 tion is unconfirmed and comes from only One. Source. -664/

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In any case, it is unlikely that this man had any. con-
nection with Oswald outside »f the mistaken belief of

several CIA officers in Mexizo. 665/

B. Reporting of information concerning Lee Harvey
Oswald from the electronic intercept operation

aimed at ‘the Soviet Embassy

The first cable that Mexico sent to Headquarters
, after the assassination referred Headquarters to the
) cable traffic conprning Oswald that had occurred prior |
‘to the assassination. 666/ ‘Headquarters replied that
‘they had also noted the "cornection." 667/ .
The cable traffic on the day of the assassination,
and the early traffic from «he following day, deal al-
most exclusively with the plotograph of the person who
“later became known as the Mexico Mystery Man. . The
first cable 668/- obviously referred to the October 1

contact and brought it to, Headquarters’ attention by

“referring Headquarters to M:XI 6453. The first cable

that specifically refers to the transcripts occurred

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"since 27 September to tocat2 all material possibly per-
tinent.." 669/ “The cable went on to instruct the station
to send the full transcripts and original tapes to Head-
quarters by special courier. 670/ The cable also asks

_4f the original tapes are stil] available. 671/

This Committee has not been able to determine how the
CIA Headquarters knew, on 23 November 1963, that a review
of the tap material should begin with the production - .
from 27 September, the day Oswald first appeared at the
Soviet and Cuban Embassies. There is no recrd that
Headquarters had been inforned of the 9/27 visits prior
to, this cable having been sent. It is possible, as some
witnesses have suggested, that his information was provided
to CIA Headquarters by the FBI in Washington. 672/ If
that is the case then it merely shifts the question. This
"may indicate that the CIA Headquarters was aware of the
9/27 visits prior to the assassination. An even stronger |
inference is that they were aware of those visits at least
_by the day after the assassination. The manner in which
they learned of these visits by that date has not been
determined. It is possible that Headquarters was informed

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by telephone. Even though w* tnesses generally denied
that there was telephone. communication between Mexico
City and Headquarters at the time of the assassination,
there is strong evidence that there was such communica-
tion on at least two instancis. 673/

As will become evident, “he transcripts were cabled
to headquarters that. same dav. It is not clear why Head-
quarters asked that the transcripts: and tapes, if they
existed, be sent to Headquar:ers by special courier as”
opposed to cabling the trans:ripts ‘which would have been
faster. 674/ There is no record that indicates that

e - these transcripts of Oswald’; calls were sent to Head-
| quarters by. special courier. _ -_ - |

On the 23rd, the. Mexico lity Station reported all
of the substantive Oswald coiversations to Headquarters
by cable. “Logically, one woild expect that since the
‘circumstantial evidence indicates that these conversa-
tions were linked to Oswald. rior to the assassination, -

that they would all have bee reported in one cable, es-

pecially in light of the request from Headquarters in

DIR 84886. 675/ At this point, according to the files

and records made available ‘to the HSCA staff. by the CHA,

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only the 9/28 and the 10/7/1245 conversations. It
should be noted that the 10/./10:45 conversation makes
reference to the fact that Oswald was also at the Em-

_ bassy on 9/28. .The next cable that Mexico City sent to

Headquarters said, in part, ‘Other than Info already

sent re Oswald's connection vith Sov and Cuban Embs,
no other info available." 67 The next cable reports
a literal transcription of tie 9/28 and 10/1/10: 45 con-
versations. 677/. The next cable that refers to the
transcripts of Oswald's conversations reports the 9/27/
10:30 call, the 9.27/4:05 call, the 9.27/4:26 call, the
10/1/10:31 call, and the 10/3 call. 678/ With this
cable Mexico City informed Headquarters of all the ‘sub-
stantive information available from the Soviet “Embassy
electronic surveillance. 679/

Mexico City also informed Headquarters on. 11/24/64
that the tapes from the period in which Oswald. had. vi-

sited the Soviet and Cuban Embassies had been erased. 580/

A cable on the previous day had informed Headquarters

that it was "probable" ‘that the Oswald tapes had been

erased. 681/ An earlier cable that same day reported

i of ae that "Station unable compare voice as first tape erased

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that the tape of the 28 September conversation, which |

may not have been received a: the station until the
30th or the Ist of October, was destroyed before the
‘tape of the conversation on :he Ist of October was re-
ceived in the station on tha: same day. In Tight of
the standard operating proce jures in effect in the sta-
tion at that time, that possibility is highly unlikely. 683/
In view of what is now kiown about the standard
operating procedures and about the Station's actions
prior to the assassination, the Station's confusing and.
somewhat contradictory reporting after the assassination
is strange. 684/ It is possible that these confusions
and contradictions: arose out of the crisis atmosphere
at the station and the rush to report information. This
Committee has not found any solid evidence that. there
were sinister qualities tn the reporting after ‘the

assassination.

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‘FOR LEE HARVEY OSWA‘D, MEXICO CITY
AND. THE CENTRAL INTE .LIGENCE AGENCY

1/ See Warren Report, pp. 299-304, 733-736. In Support of

~ tts account of Oswald's contacts with the Soviet and
Cuban diplomatic missions. the Warren Commission pub-
lished the following as exhibits:

1). A note from the Cuban Ainistry of Foreign Affairs
to the Swiss. Ambassado: in Cuba. (Commission Exhi-
bit 2445.)

2) Lee Harvey Oswald's vi3a application and the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of zhe Republic of Cuba's letter
‘denying the visa. (Conmission Exhibit 2564.)

3) Letterhead Memorandum to J. Lee Rankin from Richard
Helms re:' "Technical Examination of Photographs of
’ Lee Harvey Oswald's Ap>vlication for a Cuban Visa."
(Commission exhibit 3127.) :
: 4) The pages of Lee Harvey Oswald's notebook with the
© - telephone numbers of tire Cuban Consulate, the Soviet
. Consulate:and the Soviat Military Attache's office.
(Commission Exhibit 2121. )

5) A letter dated 11/9/63 from Lee Harvey Oswald to the
Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C... (Commission Ex-
hibit 15.) .

‘ . -6) A letter from 3. Edgar Hoover to the Warren Commission
listing the contents of the Federal; Bureau of Investi-
gation's file holdings on Lee Harvey Oswald prior to.

‘the assassination. (Commission Exhibit 834.. This
document listed a Central Intelligence Agency."release”-
dated 10/9/63 that reported Oswald's contact with
-the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.)

7) A memorandum dated 5/14/64 ‘to the United States Em-
bassy in Mexico City from the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs for Mexico. (Commission Exhibit 2120.)

8) A memorandum dated 6/9/64 from the Ministry of Foreign
, oo. ' Affairs of Mexico to the United States Embassy in
bof bee _ Mexico City. (Commission Exhibit 2123.) .

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9) A letterhead Memorandu:n to J. Lee Rankin from
Richard Helms re: "Houcs of Work at the Cuban and
: Soviet Consulates." (Zommission Exhibit 2568.)

2/ Warren Commission Report, p. 305.

3/ Classified Staff Summary of Review. of CIA Documents, un-
dated, pp. 1-2; David A. Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76,
.- 123; HSCA: ‘Outside Contact Report, David A. Phillips,
5711776 JEK Document No. 008321; Thomas Keenan Inter-
view, 3/24/78, p.. 2; Robert Zambernardi Interview,
6/3/78, p- 2. ~ Ss in ae cA Fins Wie ee fie ee elie @

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4/ Robert Zambernardi Interview, 6/3/78, p. 4.
‘5/ See JFK Exhibit. F-438, reprinted at page...
6/ Ibid.
7/ Ibid.
8/ Ibid.
9/ Ibid.; see also Section II, A, 3, below.” .

10/ See JFK Exhibit. ‘F-438 and Section Il, A, 3, below. RB
pulse camera is a camera equipped with a device that
automatically ‘triggers tte’ shutter of the camera thereby
exposing the film.

1l/ Keenan Interview, 3/24/78, Pp. AF

12/ Undated Draft of 1977 CIA staff Report, Tab F, "Mexico
Station Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies (1963),"
p. 5. Hereinafter cited as Tab F Draft.

13/ David A. Phillips Testimon:’, 11/27/76, p./23; Ann Good-.
pasture Testimony, 4/13/'8, p. 44.

“'14/ Ibid.
15/ Phillips Testimony, 11/27/96, P- “123; phitttps-Pestinohy,
4/2877T8, Pp. ts
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16/ Outside Contact Report, Davia A. Phillips, 5/11/78, JFK
Document No. 008321. ;

17/ tambernardi Interview, 6/3/78, p. 2. | {

18/ Ibid. |

19/ Ibid.

20/ Ibid., p. 3.

21/ Ibid.

22/ Ibid.

23/ Ibid., p. 4. “oF: Phillips Nestimony, 11/27/76, pp- 107-
“TO08 and Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 45-46 in

which zambexrnardi is. saic to have printed the contact
sheets. , :

. . 24/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, un-
@ ; dated, pp- 1-2.

25/ HMMA 22307, 10/18/63.

26/ Ibid., para. 5,°C. There were two common means of communi-
~Gation between “the CIA Mexico City Station and CIA Head- A
quarters: cables and dispatches. A dispatch from Mexico a
City to Headquarters always has the letter prefix "HMMA."

A dispatch from Headquar:ers to Mexico City always has.
the letter prefix "HMw. ' A cable from Mexico City to

Headquarters always has :he letter prefix "MEXI." A é
_cable from Headquarters always has the letter prefix. Be
"DIR. o . . .

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28/ Ibid. ; a ne So oe §
.29/ See JFK Exhibit F- 438. ‘ .

30/ HMMA 22307, 10/18/63, para. 5, c. | . . :

7. hou 31/ Ibid. There is general agr2ement that Robert Shaw was ;
soa “the case officer for this Operation. The only | person | ;

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who takes exception to thiit characterization of Mr.
Shaw's role in the projec:. is Mr. Shaw. (See: Phillips.
Testimony, 11/27/76, pp. :.07-108; Goodpasture Testimony,
4/13/78, pp. 45-46; Zambe:nardi.Interview, 6/3/78,

p. 6. But see: Deposition of Robert Shaw, 5/16/78,

p. 34. ; ;

32/ HMMA 22307, 10/18/63, para. 5, c.
33/ Ibid.

34/ Ibid.

35/ Ibid. The Committee decline; to assume that there had been
no production by the time of this dispatch in October.
The handling of the production, i.e., when it was picked
up and taken to the Station, when it was developed, etc.,

' is not known. But as the following analysis will show,
there is a strong likelihcodthat: the pulse camera. was
operating in late Septemb:r and early October 1963.

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49/ Ibid., para. 4,
50/ MEXI 9440, 6/19/64.
51/. Ibid.
22/ Ibid.
53/ Ibid.

54/ HSCA Classified notes of discussion with CIA employee,
7/20/78. oo

55/ Ibid. |
56/ HMMA 22726, 1/16/64, CIA #4098.
57/ Ibid., para. 5, g.

r -58/ HMMA 26414, 6/22/65.
59/ Ibid., para. 1.

60/ Ibid., para. 3..

61/ HSCA Classified Notes of discussion with CIA employee,

7/20/78. The cryptonym vas changed on 8 July 1964.
(HMMW 12725, 7/8/64. ) ;

62/ Letter from. Blakey to Brecl.inridge, 7/21/78.
63/ See Sections III, A, 5 and 6 below. |
64/ JFK Classified Document #Li2.

65/ Ibid.

66/ JFK Classified Document #146.

67/ Ibid.

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3.

and para. 4.

para. 5, g-

para. 5, c.

22433, 11/7/63, para. 3.

HMMA 26414, 6/22/65, para. 3.

6/3/78, pe 4.

Project Renewel Request,

ratyy ny
“for material “exiracte

from ClA—controlled clocuments.)

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photographic surveillance

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This assumption is considered reasonable in light of the
desire of the Mexico City Station to establish coverage
of the newly reopened Cor sulate entrance.

10/18/63.

‘See HMMA

6/22/65, para. 5.

"LIONION"

operations aimed at the Cuban diplomatic compound.

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HSCA Outside Contact -Repori: -, David A. ‘Phillips,
JFK Document No.

‘5/11/78,

-¥86/ See discussion of this memo in Section II, B, below.

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87/ Zambernardi Interview, 6/3//8, p- 2.

88/ Ibid., p. 4.

89/ Ibia. .
90/ HMMA 26414, 6/22/65, para. 3.
91/ See pages 24-27, |; above.

92/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,
undated, pp. 1-2. .

93/ Ibid.
94/ Ibid. |
95/ Ibid. .
96/ Ibid.
@ 97/ Ibid.
98/ Ibid.
99/ Ibid.
100/:Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p, 47..—
101/ Robert Shaw Testimeny, 5/16/78, p. 35; HMMA 26006, 4/30/65,
para. 8. : ;
102/ Ibid.s HMMW 13645, 5/13/65; HMMA 26160, 5/21/65, paras.1 and
103/ See MEXI 9440 and HMMA 26411.
104/ JFK Classified Document #142. ‘
105/ Notes made by A. ‘ Goodpastur 3 for John Leader, IG Staff,
' . Ye: "Background on Mexico Station Support Assets (Coverage
of Soviet and Cuban Embassies)", 2/10/77, p. 1. Here-
wm inafter cited as Goodpast ire Notes. See also: Tab F i
sf Draft, p. 1; . Goodpasture festimony, 4/13/78, p. 15. 4
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106/ Review of Project LIEMPTY, attachment to HMMA 15979,
11/18/60; Memorandum from Chief DDP/PG | to Chief of
Operations/DDP, 2/3/61.

07/ HMMA-23343, 4/30/64, para. :’. It is possible that the
~— Saturday. coverage was more extensive in 1963 during ©
Oswald's visit. See following discussion of Review

of Project LIEMPTY attachment to HMMA-15979, 11/18/60;

Keview of Project LIEMPTY, attachment to
HMMA 17999, 10/31/61; Rev:.ew of Project LIEMPTY,
attachment to HMMA-20052, 10/18/62; Reivew of Project
LIEMPTY, attachment to HMMA-22387, 10/25/63; and
Section B. 4, following. "|.JEMPTY" is the CIA cryptonyn
referring to the overall photo-surveillance operation
aimed at .the Soviet diplomatic compound.

108/ Sketch based. on HMMA-4300, 3/12/56 with attachments;
Goodpasture Notes, 2/10/7’, p. 1; Tab F Draft, p. 1;
HMMA“ 14793, 4/8/60, para. 3; _Goodpasture Exhibit #1,
11/20/78. ; ,

r -109/-Goodpasture Notes, 2/10/77, p. 1; Tab F Draft, p. 1;
: : Goodpasture Testimony, (AL3/78, p- 15.

110/ Ibid.
111/ Ibid.

112/ Ibid. See Map above. Even -:hough LIMITED is referred to
as the "primary" base bec.usé it was the first to be
put into operation, the LILYRIC base produced the best.
photographs. “(HMMA-14793, 4/8/60, para. 3) ~

113/ Tab F Draft, pp. 2 and 5; H5CA aaeeee Session Testimony
of Ann Goodpasture, 4/13/78,. p. 13; HSCA Staff Inter-
view of Thomas Keenan, 3/24/78, p. 3.

Ibid. on all preceeding; HSA Staff Interview of Herbert
and Barbara manell, 3/20/78, p. 5; HSCA Deposition of
Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, op. 18-19; Memorandum from
Chief DDP/PG to Chief of .perations/DDP, 2/3/61.

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117/ Tab F Draft, p. 5; parenthetical in original.

118/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 9.

119/ MEXI 9332, 5/6/64.

120/ Ibid.

121/ Herbert and Barbara Manell Interview, 3/20/78, p. 5.

122/ See also Section II, A, 3 above.

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stated that the case officer handling the project was
Thomas Keenan. (Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p- 34)

-. Thomas Keenan could not remember with certainty the scope
of the photographic coverage of the Soviet Embassy gate.
(Thomas Keenan Interview, 3/24/78, pp. 3-6.)

@ - 124/ Goodpasture “Testimony, 4/12/78, pp. 28-29.
125/ See below for more detail. -

126/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 5/12/78;
“~~ * Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,
10/31/78; CIA File entitled "LIMITED 17 July 63 (J 110)
“to 9 Dec. 1963 (J. 163) f£10m Archives- -Job #70.209 Box #1
LIMITED Production Material.

‘Ibid.

Goodpasture Notes, p. 2; HSCA Staff Interview of Thomas
Keenan, 3/24/78, p. 4; Classified Staff Summary of Review
of CIA Documents, 5/12/7%; HMMA-31303, 2/7/67 with attached
map; HMMA-23343, 4/30/64, para. 2. .

129/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 2. See also map printed above at p. 32.
130/ Classified Staff Summary o:' Review of CIA Documents, 5/12/78;

Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, |
10/31/78; CIA File entit!.ed “LIMITED 17 July 63. (J 110).

CO. - to 9 Dec. 1963 (J 163) from Archives-Job #70.209 Box #1
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132/ Keenan Interview, 3/24/78, 7. 4,

33/ Ibid.

34/ Ibid.

35/ Review of Project LIEMPTY, attachment to HMMA 15979, 11/18/60.

; Emphasis added. “LIMERIC<". is a CIA cryptonym meaning
"Soviet."

136/ Review of Project LIEMPTY, ittachment to HMMA 17999, 10/31/61.

37/ See Review of Project LIEMP'TY, attachments to HMMA 20052,
10/18/62 and HMMA 22387, 10/25/63.

38/ Memorandum from Chief of FI/OPS to Chief of operations /DDP,
- 1/8/60.

139/ HMMA 14793, 4/8/60, para. 3.
@ i407 wma 23343, 4/30/64, para. 2. Emphasis added. _
141/ iiemorandum for tne Record, 3/19/78 from Gabielson/Cornwell.

42/ Letter from Blakey to Breckinridge, 7/25/78

See also J°K Classified Documents, #'s 142
and 146.

143/ Memorandum entitled "Response to HSCA request of 25 July
_ 1978," 8/20/78; HSCA Clas3ified Staff Summary of Review
of CIA Documents, 10/31/73, p. 1. CE. Goodpasture Testi-
mony, 4/13/78, pp. 47-51, Goodpasture Deposition, 11/20/78,
- pp.50- 5}, where Ms. Goodpasture testified that although
the logs and the contact. srints from the LILYRIC base
are missing, thenegatives are on file at the CIA.

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of CIA Documents, 10/31/73, p. l..

; 145/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 41. HMMA 23343, 4/30/64,
( 3. para. 2. Win Scott was tare Chief of Station in Mexico

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stickler for detail and for recording information ina

retrievable form. (Ibid.; Goodpasture Notes, p. 6; Keenan
- Interview, 3/24/78, p. 63 Phillips Testimony, 4/25/78,

p-.- 30.) -

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Log Film 144; Goodpasture Notes, p. 8; Tab F Draft, p. 5;

147/ |

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148/ Ibid.
149/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 7.

Tab F. Draft, p. 2; Goodvasture Notes, p.~2. In 1962 or
1963 a cut-out was institited in Alvarez's dealings with
the LIMITED photographic sase.. The films were still de-
veloped and processed by Alvarez. (Project Renewal Re-
quest, attachment to HMMA-22387, attached to Memorandum
for DDP from J. C. King, 11/27/63, section I, B, 1.)

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160/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 6/26/78,
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See H. Manell Deposition, 4/28/78, p. 4 ; where he calls
Ms. Goodpasture "an assistant to the Chief of Station;’
‘B. Manell Deposition 4/28/78, p. 9  , where she calls
Ms. Goodpasture "Win Scott's right-hand person"; Robert
Poo, Scelso Deposition, 5/16/78.p.22 , where he calls Ms.

Goodpasture. "Sort of the svecial assistant to Win Scott";

@ Robert Shaw Deposition, 5/16/78, p. 11 , where he says

that Win Scott "relied very heavily on Ann Goodpasture."

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170/ Goodpasture Deposition, 11/20/78, p-. 34.

171/ Ibid. , Pp. 8-9. See Section II, C, below for detail on 1 the
. ~ telephone tapping operation.

172/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp- 34-35.

173/ Ibid., p. 35.

174/ Ibid., pp. 42-43.

175/ Ibid.

176/-HSCA Deposition of Barbara Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 11-12. _
177/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, p. 15. Herbert
po ’ Manell was in charge of the Soviet Branch of the CIA Sta-
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138/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert ‘fanell, 4/28/78, p. 15; HSCA
‘Deposition of Barbara Man2ll1, 4/28/78, pp- 11-12.

“, Hexbert_and_Barbarafanell Interviéw, 3/20/78, p. 3.
HORI Dapp rc ce Le

182/ Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 64-69; Arnold Arehart
-Interview, 6/2/78, p- 4.
192/ Sea

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‘ _ cable about Oswald"; Classified Staff Summary of Review

of CIA Documents, 3/15/7E, Pp. 4; GoodpesturePestrmenyr

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e . 185/ Herbert and Barbara Manell Interview, 3/20/78, p. 12.
pad biina Memorandum entitled "Delay in sending the first cable
about OSWALD"; ssified HSCA Staff Summary of Review
of CIA files, 3/15/78, p 4. ; a . .

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187 /+ GoodpastyTe Notes, p. 1; Goodpastyre” Testimony, pp. 12-13;
HSCA Deposition of B. “ell, p. 6: HSCA Deposition of

R. Show, pp. 21-24.

Hk 188/ CIA Component report on wicetap operations prepared by Paul

Levister entitled "ZRSOL) and ZRJOINT: Two Telephone Tap
Operations," pp. 10-11. Hereinafter cited as Levister

Memo. Paul Levister pseidonym) was a Headquarters tech-
_nician. He was in Mexico City from 22 September to l
KSctober, 1963, preparing a report on this electronic ;

' “intercept operation. (HMMA~22267, 10/8/63, para. 8.) Bs
This report will be referred to in some cases in this dis-
cussion of the intercept operation., The report, however,

eo

was simplified in order "not to rjék losing the reader."
(Memorandum from Chief, WHD, to , Mexico City, 12/30/63,
para. 2.) This simplification was mainly in the area of

a distinction between reels of tape and transcripts and

in the procedures — .

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-used in the collection and distri-
bution of the reels and transcripts. (Ibid.) In this
discussion of the operation o::her sources will be relied
upon in these areas.

In addition to the telephone surveillance main-
tained by the CIA Station in cooperation with the Mexi-
can Government, the Station a.:so maintained some unilateral
surveillance on. the Soviets w:.thout the knowledge or
cooperation of the Mexican of:iicials. The unilateral
surveillance was not directed at the Soviet diplomatic
compound but rather at the pr:.vate apartments of Soviet
officials in Mexico City. (Goodpasture Testimony,
4/13/78, p. 56; Manell Interv:.ew, 3/20/78, p. 7; HSCA
Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28,/78, p. 7; HSCA Deposition
of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 16-17.) There was also uni-
lateral coverage of some Cuban targets. (GOdodpasture
Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 51-52.) Ann Goodpasture testi-
fied that she believed that some of these targets were

located in the Cuban diplomat -¢ compound, (Ibid.) Ms.

C ) Goodpasture's memory is not borne out by the project
file for thé unilateral intercept. ‘The only Cuban tar-
get of this project was the home of the Cuban Commer-
‘cial Attache. (HMMA- 22536, 11/9/63, para. F.2.)

i89/ Project Renewal Request, 1/11/63, attachment to HMMA-25141;
‘ Goodpasture Notes, p. 5. .

190/ HMMA 21845, 1/30/63, para. 8.

Levister Memo, p. 22.

~

‘191/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 4; Arehar- Interview, 6/2/78, p- 1:
192/

. Goodpasture Notes, p. 5; Goodpasture Téstimony, 4/13/78,
p. 54. ;

193/ Goodpasture Notes, p. 7.

94/ Tab F Draft, p. 4; Levister Mem), p. 21.

195/ Tab F Draft, p. 4; Memorandum t> DDP from Chief WHD,
1/21/64, para. 5. oo ;

soe 196/ Manell Interview, 3/20/78, pp. L-2; HSCA. Deposition of

~- HH. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 4... re -

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mo 197/ Manell Interview, 3/20/78, }>. 2; HSCA Deposition of B.
Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 7, 3...

-198/ Manell Interview, 3/20/78, pe 2. |
199/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 22-24.

200/ Memorandum to the Ambassado- from Winston M. Scott, 10/16/63,
— re: Lee Oswald/Contact wich the Soviet Embassy; Manell
-Interview, 3/20/78, pp. 17-18; HSCA Deposition of H.
Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 21, 31, 36; HSCA Deposition of B.
Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 51-52. :

201/ Phillips Testimony, 11/27/75, p. 19.
202/ Ibid., p. 20.

203/ HMMA-22005, 8/23/63, para. 4. See also HMMA~22267, 10/8/63,

Os para. 4; HMMA-22135, 9/13/63, para. 4; HMMA-22452,
11/7/63, para. 4 which all list reports of intercepts
of American citizens, or &nglish. speaking people, in .

@ contact with Communists in Mexico. HMMA~21845, 7/30/63,
para. 4, reports that the "traffic" is reviewed daily

for English Speaking persons making contact with the
Soviet or Soviet satellit2 embassies.

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204/ HMMA 22267, 10/8/63, para. 2.

205/ Ibid. In addition to the lines at the Soviet and Cuban com-
pounds, telephones of interest to the Mexicans, lines at
the Czechoslovakian and Yugoslavian Embassies were. sub-
jects of taps. (HMMA-22267, 10/8/63, para. 2.) The two
lines disconnected on 23 September at the Cuban Embassy ~
were put on lines at the Yugoslavian Embassy on the -

“Same day. (Ibid.)

206/ HMMA 22452,° 11/7/63, para. 2.

2077/7 Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 5/12/78,
p. l.

208/ See above; HMMA 22267, 10/18/63, para. 2.°
{ } 209/ Classified staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents; . 7/26/78,

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210/ Ibid.

211/ See Tab F Draft, p- 4, whic states that five Cuban lines
~ were covered; Goodpasture Notes, p. 8, which also states
‘ that 5 Cuban lines were covered; and Phillips Testimony,
11/27/76, p- 11, and ‘Gooipasture Testimony, 4/13/78,
pp. 51-53, in which they state their belief that more
than three lines in the Caban diplomatic’ compound were
covered by this liaison intercept operation.

212/ Project Renewal Request, 1/11/65, attachment to HMMA
25141, section D, 1, (b), (1).

213/ Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p. ll. See also Section III,
A, 3, below. . . . :

214/ Classified HSCA Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,
undated, entitled pPerioe ic File Summary - Dave Phillips -
3 Components,” p. 1 . . .

@ 215/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 5;.Levister. Memo, p. 22. —
216/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 2.-
217/ Ibid., Levister Memo, p. 1).

218/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 3.

219/ Ibid., p. 2; Levister Memo, p-.11; HSCA Deposition of R.
Shaw, 5/16/78, P- 20. fee

220/ Ibid. See also Tab F Draft p. 4. Cf. Herbert and Barbara BS
Manell Interview, 3/20/73, p. 8, in wheih the Chief of.
the Soviet Section in th: Mexico City Station claims .
never to have heard of such summaries. ¢

221/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, pp. 2-3.

22/ Ibid.; Goodpasture Notes, >. 8; Levister Memo, p.- ll; Me-
morandum from Paul Levis cer to Chief/FI, 10/2/63, para. 2. ¢

223/ Ibid.

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225/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, >. 2; Levister Memo, Pp. ll.
(226/ Ibid. .
. 227/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, > 2.
228/ Ibid., p- 4; Project Renewal Request, 1/11/65, attachment
to HMMA-25141, Section D, (2).
229/ Ibid.
230/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, p. 5.
231/ Ibid.
232/ Ibid., p. 2. The ‘resuma provided quick summaries with the
OK ; ~ full detailed transcripts arriving at the Station ‘one
@ or two days after the resuma.
; 233/ bia. ;
234/ Ibid.
235/ Ibid.
236/ Ibid., p. 3.
237/ Ibid., P- 5.
238/ Ibid.
239/ Ibia., p- 2. ,
240/ HMMA 22267, 10/2/63, para. 8; HMMA 21845, 7/30/63, para. 8.
For handling of English tanguage conversations see
Sections II, C, 4, b, (3! (c), (d) and (e) below.
241/ DIR 88680, 12/13/63; Goodpisture Testimoy, 4/13/78, p. 63;

: - Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76; p. 43.

a 242/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, Dp. 3.

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244/ B. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78, p- ll.

245/ After- the assassination ‘Hea iquarters ‘asked Mexico City

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that the tapes were retained at the station.

(The Soviet tap operation) people just keep bring-
ing in the reels to me (the ones I give them are not
labeled so they don't necessarily know which ones
return.) The storage problem is one for us and as
the reels come in with transcriptions, I store them.
When we can erase then, I'll take off the labels
and send them back out.

(Note by Ann Goodpasture, 12/10/63, attached to DIR 87770.
12/9/63. Second: parenthetical in original. ) .

_Zambernardi Interview, 6/3/78, p. 5.

Emphasis added. Mr. Arehart was absolutely positive that
Cuban tapes were retainec for thirty days because he
maintained them in the special rack. (Arehart Interview,
6/2/78, p. 3.) Hence, the two week "usual practice" is
probably not correct insefar as the Cuban tapes are con-
cerned. — ;

Phillips Testimony, 11/27/'6, pp: 40-47.

Ibid.

Ibid., p. 47.

p- 5-
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Pp. 6l.

54/ Ibid.; Goodpasture Notes, >. 8; Tab F Draft, p. 5; HSCA
Deposition of H. Manell, 3/28/78, pp. 28-29; Boris Tara-
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. . 11/30/76, p. 17. The Span..sh transcriptions had the name
of the Embassy which was tiped at the top of the first
@ page of each transcript. (‘ranscript here means one day's
coverage on one telephone -ine.) Following the name of
the Embassy, the number of the pnone covered is given.
The date and times of cove -:age follow immediately after
the phone number. The reel number is also given at the
top of the page. Along th: left-hand column of the page
is the cite to the meter nimber on the tape recorder
where the transcribed conv:rsation is located. Generally,
the time that the conversa-ion occured, and a notation as
to whether it is an incomiig or outgoing call, appears
at the beginning of the transcribed conversations. (Clas-
sified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Document, 3/9/78,
p. 1; Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 69-70.) The
format of the transcripts from the Cuban Embassy was essen-
tially the same as the fornat of the Spanish language
transcripts from the Soviet Embassy. (Classified Staff
Summary of Review of CIA documents, 5/12/78, pp. ‘1-2;
Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,
pp. 1-2.) Conversations that were. in Russian were noted
on the Spanish transcript vere a number referring to the
place on the reel where th2 conversation occurred (Classi-
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2647 Eooapasthre Notes, p. 8; B. dargeOtt Testimony, 4/12/78,
p. 9. ; ;

2657 hia’ Mr. Tarasoff prepare! an original and two carbon
copies of all of his traiscriptions.. All three copies .

; were delivered to the Station: (B arasoff Testimony,
4/12/78, p. 15.) One ca-bon was cut and pasted onto
a separate sheet of pape-, with the conversations grouped
by identity of the calle: or by subject matter. This

' was done by Mrs. Tarasoff. (Ibid’, and p. 19.) The
original, one intact car on and the one cut up carbon
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2677 Ibid Ibid., Pp. 12.
0 2ge/ cooapaatire Notes, p. 8; Tal/F Draft, p. 5.
2097 Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 61 ;

270/ Geeepe oTes orp Fs POT pe Hee Phillips Testimony,
i 11/27/76, p. 363 . Para soft timony, 4/12/78, pp.
8-11; B. Manell €position, 4/28/78, p. 28. , ‘

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271/ Tab F Draft, pp. 5- 6: Philips Testimony, 11/27/76, pp. 36-37.

Ge 292/ Arehart In¥erview, 6/2/78, >. 5; (inuny52267, 10/8/63,
para. 8; HMMA 45, 7/30/63, para. 8; HMMA<22452, 11/7/63,
para. 8. _ Bs

273/° Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, >. 5

279/ Ibid. The daily resuma for spanish language conversations
r 3 “(See Section II, C, 4, b, (1), above) largely negated
' the need for a smit iar procedure for Spanish language
conversations in~that the important and/or: interesting
ones were summarized in th2 resuma.

272/ Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, 9. 5.

246/ Ibid. , ,

219/ Ibid.

| 278/ Ibid.
fot 274/ HMMA 22005, 8/23/63, para. a See also LeviSter Memo, p. 19.
280/ A. ‘tarasofs/nestinony, 4/12/78, PP. 12.

, 2d | Ibid.

F< 2@2/ HMMA 22005, 8/23/63, para. 4.

\g83/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. VS

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11/27/76, p-

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pp. 14-16; Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, PP- 54, 63.

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HMMA- 22135, 9/13/63, para. 3; HMMA-22005, 8/23/63, para.. 3.

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B. Tarasoff. Testimony, 4/1: /78, p. 30.

Ibid., p. 13. | oo

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304/ See Sections II, A and B ab ve.

305/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,
p: 5; MEXI 7025,. 11/23/63.

306/ Ibid.; CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 9/27/63. -

307/ Classifiec Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,
: Pp- 6. 7 . . .

308/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,
pp. 6-7; CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 9/27/63.

309/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,
pp. 7-10; MEXI 7025,, 11/23/63; CIA Transcript from Rus- —
sian Embassy, 9/27/63. ; : ; .

310/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,
3/9/78, pp- 10-12, CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy,
9/28/63. . ;

311/ Classified Staff Summary 03 Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,
p. 12; CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 10/1/63.

312/ CIA Mexico City Investigat:.on Chronology, Bulky #Wx-7241,
vol. I, p. 3. The transcript of this call does not ,
give the time the call occured. (CIA Transcript from
Russian Embassy, 10/1/63 ) ;

-313/ Classified Staff Summary o° Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78,
pp. 12-14; CIA Transcrip: from the Russian Embassy,
10/1/63. : ,

- 314/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,
3/9/78, p. 14; CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy,
10/3/63. : —-

'315/ DIR 74830, 10/10/63. See also MEXI 6453, 10/8/63 and
Section IV, B, below. :

316/ DIR 74830, 10/11/63. (Mexico City copy.)

17/ Ibid.

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319/ Classified HSCA Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents,
5/12/78, p. 1. On Septemker 27, 1963, at 10:54 a.m.,
the following call occured. . A woman named Silvia
named Guillermo Ruiz. Ruiz tells her that he has not’
yet been able to reach the consul and because of that.
he has not called her. Silvia tells him that "we"

"have no time for that and asks him for the Consul's
phone number.: Ruiz respords by asking her not to get
annoyed and he wants to know if Silvia wishes to speak
to the Consul personally. Silvia responds that she
does. Ruiz says that the number is 11-28-47. Silvia
says that is. fine and the conversation ends. (CIA
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determined whether this céller was indeed Silvia Duran or ~
if she subsequently callec the Consul since Duran's of-
fice phone was not tapped. The tap was on the telephone
used by Ruiz. . a

320/ Classifed Staff Summaries of Review of CIA Documents,
undated and 5/12/78.

@ ' -321/ See Sections II, A and B above.
322/ See Sections II, C, 4, b, («), (ec) and (dad) above.
323/ A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12/78.

324/ See Section III, A, 1 above. -

325/ A. Tarasoff Testimony, 4/12,'78, p. 4.
326/ Ibid.
327/ Ibid., p. 6.

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_ Harvey Oswald. (HSCA Deposition of James Angleton,

10/5/78, p- 116.) ,
352/ Classified Letter from Blak+y to Breckinridge, 7/6/78.

353/ Draft of letter from Scott :o-John Barron, 11/25/70, |
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355/ See discussion, above.
356/ Blind Memo re: Lee Harvey Cswald/Silvia Tirado de Duran;

Source: LI/4, 11/26/63, F- 5.

357/ See Sections V, C and VI, A, below.

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360/ See Sections II, A and B, ebove.
361/ See below. _ 7 7 =
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363/ It should be noted that the two sets of photographs which
-are missing are the most relevant of all the photographs
' produced by the Mexico C.ty girveillance operations.
Had a photograph of Oswald been obtained, it would
have most likely have be:2n done by one or both of the
bases from which production is missing. Oswald visited
the Cuban Consulate whici was covered by a pulse camera.
“The photographs of peopl: entering the Cuban Embassy
have been made available to this Committee for review
but the material from the pulse camera which covered
the entrance to the Consulate which Oswald visited has
not been forthcoming. (See Section II, A, 3, above, for |
: ; . details.) The documented standard operating. proce-
} . : dure of the Soviet target bases indicates that LILYRIC,
¥ _ the base from which production was not forthcoming,
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‘Oswald's visit. (See Sec:ion II, B, 4 above and
Section (b). below for details.) In addition, HMMA-
14793, 4/8/60, indicated chat the base from which pro-

 @uction is missing “perfo:ms the best photography of
persons visiting the fron: gate." ,

364/ Deposition of Jolin Scelso, 3/16/78, p. 95; HSCA Deposi-
_ tion of Elsie I. Scaletti, 5/19/78, p. 65; HSCA Depo-
. sition of Allen White, 5/18/78, p. 42; HSCA Deposi-
, tion of H. Manell, 4/28/73, p. 51; Ann Goodpasture,
4/13/78, p. 98.° .

365/ See preceding Section III, A, l. In fact, Oswald may
have visited the Soviet Embassy 3 times also. See
analysis in Classified Letter from Turner to Stokes
10/25/78, JFK Classified Document #146.

366/ Zambernardi Interview, 6/3/78, p. 6.

} 367/ See Section III, A, 1, above. .
eo ; 368/ See Sections II, A and B, ébove.
-369/ See Sections II, A, 3 and iI, B, 3 above.

370/ HSCA Outside Contact Report:, Phillip Agee, 1/6/78, JFK
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375/ Ibid.
376/ Ibid.
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380/ Ibid., pp. 6-7.

381/ Ibid., p. ll.

/382/ Ibia., ‘pp. 18-19.

.383/ Ibid., p. 12.

384 Daniel Stanley Watson Interview, 6/4/78, p. 1.

385/ Ibid. -

386/ Ibid.

87/ Ibid.

-388/ Ibid.
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392/ Ibid. .
393/ Ibid. and. p. 2.
394/ Ibid., p. 2.
95/ See HSCA Deposition of James Angleton, 106/78 , p.lleé.
396/ Watson Interview, 6/4/78, p. 2. | .
397/ Ibid. .

398/ Joseph B. Smith Interview, 10/19/77, p. 2, JFK Document
No. 003012.

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402/ Ibid., p. 6.

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Watson allegation says there was a photo in Mexico City in the
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portant to distinguish between the allegation that a
photograph was found at headquarters as opposed to the
assertion that a photograph was found in Mexico City.

It is also important to remember that these allegations
are what can be termed “grapevine stores." There was

a photograph found in Mexico City of a man that was
thought possibly to be Oswalé. This photograph and

the circumstances surroundine it will be dealt with in
a subsequent section. Ms. Arne Goodpasture of the
Mexico City Station found this photograph. (See below.)
In the absence of any evidence otherwise--Note:, The .

likely that the grapevine stories about a photo being
found in Mexico arise from Ms. Goodpasture's report-
ing the photo of the man who has since become known as
the Mexico mystery man in the: same cable that reported
Oswald's visit to the Soviet Embassy.. (See below.)

The findings of. this Committ2e regarding the general
Mexico City surveillance opecations are presented in
Section II, A and B above. In summary, this Committee |
found that there were three 2hotographic surveillance
bases (four cameras) that may have photographed Lee '.
Harvey Oswald in September and October of 1963. This
was determined from analysis of project files for these
operations and the testimony of CIA officials. (See

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48/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 37, 96; HSCA
‘Deposition of Ann Elizabe-h Goldsborough Egerter,

5/17/78, p-. 73; HSCA Deposition of Robert Shaw, 5/16/78,

p. 56; HSCA Deposition of Allen White, 5/18/78,:p. 253°

HSCA Deposition of H. Man21l, 4/28/78, pp. 20, 47;

David Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p. 67; David Phillips

Testimony, 4/25/78, p. 44; Ann Goodpasture Testimony,

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the cable and dispatch traffic between Mexico City and
Headquarters for the period from October 1, 1963 to :
26 November 1963 in an attempt to determine whether Os-
wald's photo may have been sent to Headquarters. This
‘examination also reveale¢ no evidence that a photograph
of Oswald was sent to CI/, Headquarters. This Committee
did find that there were several types of communications
between Headquarters and field stations. that were treated
as non-record: material. Because of the non-record nature

cy _ of these communications, it was not possible to review .

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458/ HMMA 22307, 10/18/63, para. 5, c.
459/ See Section II, A, 3 above.
460/ Ibid.
461/ HMMA 22433, 11/7/63, attachments B and C.
462/ HSCA Deposition of Elsie Scaletti, 5/19/78, pp. 44-47.

463/ HSCA Deposition of Ann E. ¢. Egerter, 5/17/78, p. 70; HSCA
. Deposition of John Scelsc, 5/16/78, p.-: 31. 0

464/ Ibid.

465/ Ibid.,. and p. 32.
466/ Ibid., p. 7.
@  182/ mia., vp. a7. -

468/ Ibid. Emphasis added.

469/ Foul Foe manuscript, p. 272.

470/ See Section III, A, 1 above for a more detailed exposition
of the . conversations. . ; :

471/ Memorandum to Clark Anderscn from Winston Scott, 11/27/63,
with seven attachments.

472/ Ibid.

473/ Ibid., p. 1.

474/ Ibid.

475/ Ibid., p. 9.

476/ Warren Commission Testimony of Pamela Mumford, 5/19/64,
: ; _ Vol. II, p. 217; Warren Commission Testimony of Evaristo
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2120, p. 7; Commission Exnibit 2121, p. 54. CF, Warren
Commission Testimony of Ne2lson Delgado, Vol. VIII,

p. 236. and 237 in which i: is claimed that Oswald spoke
Castillian Spanish. -

'" 477/ CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 10/3/63.

'.478/ If one assumes that Oswald zould not speak any Spanish
then only two conclusions about the first three calls
of 9/27/63 are possible: 1) either these calls do not

_ pertain to Oswald, or 2) they do pertain to Oswald
but were made by someone other than Lee Harvey Oswald.
This second possible conclusion will be addressed in
a more detailed fashion in subsequent sections due to
its ramifications Vis a vis Oswald's activities and pos-
sible associates as opposed to the substance of the in-.
formation available to the CIA Station prior to the
assassination. : , ; :

479/ Warren Commission Exhibit 2121, p. 112.

wo. 480/ Classified Staff Summary of Review of CIA Documents, 3/9/78. .

‘.-- 481/ CIA Transcript from RusSiar Embassy, 10/1/63; MEXI 6453,

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it is alternately referred to as either the 10/8 or
10/9 cable. : ; : :

--482/ CIA Transcript, from Russiar, Embassy, 10/1/63; B. Tarasoff
Testimony, 4/12/78, pp. :'6-28.

483/ CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 10/1/78.
.484/ CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 9/28/63.

485/ A "P" file is simply a personality file. It was the Mexico.
‘City Station equivalent of a 201 file.

___486/ Ibid.

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87/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, p. 38; HSCA
Deposition of Barbara Manell, 4/28/78, p. 72.

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i 488/ Ibid. .
489/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 46.
490/ Ibid.; CIA Transcript fron Russian Embassy, 9/27/63.

491/ Ibid.

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492/ Ibid.; HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 76.

493/ Ibid. HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 46.-

4/ HSCA Deposition of Barbara Manell, 4/28/78, p. 69;HSCA Depo-
: sition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 38-39, oe

495/ HSCA Deposition of Alan White, 5/18/78, pp. 33-34; HSCA
i . Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, Pp. 46; HSCA
® Deposition of Barbara Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 84-86, 88-89.

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“ 497/ 1977 CIA Inspector General's Keport, Tab G-2, pp. 2-3. .

498/ See Sections III, B, 2, above, and IV, B, below,

9/ D. Phillips Interview, 8/34/78; Report on Oswald from’
John Scelsoa to J. Angle:on, 12/24/63, p. 4.

500/ Ibid.

501/ CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 9/27/78.
502/ Ibid.

Weh,

03/ See Section II, C, 4, b, ()), above.

504/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manel, 4/28/78, Pp. 72; HSCA Deposi-
= -tion of H. Manell, 4/28/"8, p. 38. :

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CIA transcripts from Russiar. Embassy, 9/27/63.
Tab F Draft, p. 5.
Arehart Interview, 6/2/78, pp. 4-5.

HMMA-22005, 8/23/63, para. 4; see also Section II, C, 4.
above. : ; _ .

Ibid.

Ibid.; Arehart Interview, 6,'2/78, p. 5; Testimony of B.
“Tarasoff, 4/12/78;. p. 10.

Testimony of Boris Tarasoff. 4/12/78, P- 11; Testimony
of A. Tarasoff£, 4/12/78, }. 14.

Tab F Draft, p. 5.

‘Ibid.

Tab F Draft, p. 5; Precediny Section II, B, 5; Log Film:
144. 10/1/63 through 10/3,’63. :

‘See Nightwatch, pp. 140-141.

David A. Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p. 64.

MEXI 6453, 10/8/63.

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25/ Tab F Draft, p- 5; MEXI 6453, 10/8/63; HSCA Deposition
of B. Manell,. 4/28/78, pp. 62-63; HSCA Deposition of
Herbert Manell, 4/28/63, 2. 21. ° ;

526/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 56-57.

527/ Classified HSCA Staff Summa cy of Review of CIA Documents,
6/26/78, p. 4.

528/ Ibid.
529/ Deposition of B. Maneil, 4/28/78, p. 65. CF. "Foul Foe"
manuscript, p. 268, where Win Scott writes: "In fact,
Lee Harvey Oswald became a person of great interest
‘to us during this 27.September to 2 October 1963 period";
-and-on page 269, where. he writes: "Because we thought at
@ first that Lee Harvey Oswald might be a dangerous po-
tential defector from the U.S.A. to the Soviet Union,
he was of great interest to us, sO we kept a special
watch on him and his activities.
530/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. 25.
31/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 25-26.
32/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. 26.
533/ HSCA Deposition of Herbert Manell, 4/28/78, p. 36.
534/ See above. Cf. "Foul Foe’ manuscript, pp. 268-269.
535/ HSCA Deposition of Barbara Manell, 4/28/78, p. 52.
36/ HSCA Deposition of Alan White, 5/18/78, p. 26-28.
37/ Ibid. |

38/ HSCA Deposition of H. Mané:.l, 4/28/78, p. 30.

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539/ HSCA Deposition of B. Maneli, 4/28/78, pp. 51-52. “The
HSCA has requested a copy of any internal regulations
or any liaison agreement with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation that may have been in existence in 1963.
(Letter to Breckinridge, /’/20/78.) The CIA responded
"that there are not now, 10r were there any, agreements _
between the CIA and FBI..o: other U.S. government agen-
‘cies concerning CIA respoisibility to report on contacts
of U.S. cutizens with Comnunist Embassies or officials...
The CIA under operative l2gislation has a counterintelli-.
gence responsibility for -counterintelligence cases
but it is notamatter of ag-eement with other agencies nor
does it concern simple coitacts of Americans abroad with
Communist Embassies or officials. (Memorandum to
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graph to Oswald by including the description in the
cable that reported Oswald's contact.with the Soviet Em-
bassy has created more ccnfusion and controversy. than
perhaps any other CIA related issue stemming from as-
sassination. Consequently, this Committee has made an
attempt to determine the circumstances surrounding the
mistaken linkage of this photograph to Oswald as well
as the consequences of that mistake. The consequences

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of the mistake will be dealt with in more detail in
subsequent sections.

549/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 33; HSCA Deposi-
tion of John Scelso,.5/16/78, p. 35; Ann Goodpasture
Testimony, 4/13/78, pp. 81, 86-87. .

550/ HSCA Deposition of Allan White, 5/18/78, Pp. 28.

551/-Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 107. See also Ann
Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 84; and HSCA- Deposi-

‘' tion of Allan White, 5/18/78, p. 32.
552/ Log Film 143, 9/25/63 through 9/27/63.
553/ HSCA Deposition of Ann Goodpasture, 11/16/70, pp. 57-58.

'554/ CIA Transcript from Russian Embassy, 10/1/63.

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. aS 1 October; A note on EMMW-15488, 5/18/67 which indi-
cates that Ann Goodpasture checked the photographs and
that "negatives are in LIMITED ) Photo chrono for 1 Oct
1963." . . :

556/ Log film 144, 10/1/63 through 10/3/63.
557/ Ann Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, P- 102.

.558/ See Classified HSCA Staff cummary of Review of CIA Docu-
‘ments, 6/26/78, pp. 3-5.

559/ DIR 84888, 11/23/63.

560/ See Section III, A, 5 above.
561/ MEXI 6453, 10/9/63.

562/ Ibid. _

_ . 3563/ HSCA Deposition of John Sce1s0, 5/16/78, « p. 34; HSCA Depo-
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66/ Ibid. A restricted file is i method of keeping abreast of
any information that deve:.ops on the subject of the file.
The file is marked to ind:.cate that it cannot be reviewed
without the permission of the person who made the re-
striction. The effect is that if anyone wants to see

the file, the custodian o:? the file learns of that de-
sire and the information ‘eading to it. .(HSCA Deposi-
‘tion of Ann E. G. Egerter. 5/19/78, p. 51.) .

567/ See Section

568/ HSCA Deposition of A. Egerter, 5/17/78, p. 77.

569/ Deposition of Elsie Scaleti. 5/19/78, p. 29.

570/ HSCA Deposition of Ann Eger:er, 5/17/78, pp. .78- 19.

571/ Ibid., pp. 70-71; HSCA Deposition of Elsie Scaleti,
@. 5/19/78, p. 33.

572/ Ibid. The Zed (Greenwich) times stamped on the cable and

the teletype indicates thit the teletype was sent before
the cable. .

573/ DIR 74830, 10/10/63.

74/ Ibid.

75/ Ibid.
76/ Ibid.

77/— Teletype from CIA to State, FBI and Navy, DIR 74678, 10/10/63.
Ibid. :

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79/ The mistaken identification of Oswald.as "Lee Henry" is
dealt with in another section of this final report.

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582/ Ibid.
583/ tid, pp. 35-37/ . |

'584/ Elsie Scaleti Interview, 3/30/78, p. 8.

@5/ Ibid., pp. 11-13. .

86/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 37.

587/ HSCA Deposition of John Scelso, 5/16/78, p. Si.

88/ Report on Oswald from John Scelso, C/WH/3, to James Angleton,
C/CI, 12/24/63, p. 4.

589/ HSCA Deposition of John Sce1so, 5/16/18, 3 pp- 40-43. Empha-
sis added.

"  590/ Ibia.
@ 91/ See preceding text.
592/ HSCA Deposition of Elsie Scaleti, 5/19/78, p- 31.

93/'Ibid., p- 30; See also HSCI. Deposition of John scelso,
Oo 5716/28, pp. 27, 28,

594/ See HSCA Deposition of Joh: Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 40- 43,
51; HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 37; HMMA-
22005, 8/23/63, para. 4. -
595/ '77 IGR, Tab G.3, p. 3.
96/ ‘Ibid.

97/ Teletypés from. CIA to State, FBI and Navy, 10/10/63, DIR
74678. . : :

598/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 43; HSCA Deposi-_
' tion of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 89-90.

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599/ David A. Phillips Testimony, 4/25/78, p. 30.

00/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 90-91; Ann Good-
pasture Testiony, 4/13/73, p. 142.

601/ David A. Phillips Testimony, 4/25/78, pp. 92-93.

602/ Scott's manuscript may provide a clue when he writes that

~~ during his first contact with the Soviet Embassy, Oswald
"gave his name very slowly and distinctly." (Foul. Foe
Manuscript, p- 267.) If Oswald used his middle name at
that time it would explain why Scott wrote "sic." by
"Henry." But it should be noted that Oswald's name .
does not come up in any of the transcripts made available
by the CIA until 10/1/62, and Oswald's middle name is
not given in that transcript. It is possible that
there is one additional transcript, possibly of the con-
versation that Scott, or page 267 of his manuscript,
refers to as Oswald's "iirst contact," which, if in exis-
tence, has not been made available to this Committee.
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07/ Routing and Record Sheet for DIR 74830, 10/11/63. .

08/ HSCA Deposition of Alan Wiite, 5/18/78, ‘pp. 33-34; HSCA
Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 46; HSCA Deposi-
tion of B.-Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 84-86, 88-89.

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609/ HSCA Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78, pp- 43-44; David
‘A. Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p- 89. © .

HSCA’ Deposition of Allan White, 5/18/78, p- 37.

610/
611/

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613/ Note on Article by Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott, "CIA .

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probably still in existence at the time of the assas-
Sination. (HSCA Depositicn of John Scelso, 5/16/78,
p. 76-77.) But the tesitmony of the persons at the
Mexico City Station is.ccnsistent in saying that the
tapes did not exist at the time of the assassination.
(See HSCA Deposition of Fobert Shaw, 5/16/78, p. 29;
HSCA Deposition of Allan White, 5/18/78, p. 20; David
A. Phillips Testimony, 11/27/76, p. 63; David A. Phil-
lips Testimony, 4/25/78, pp. 17, 23; Ann Goodpasture
Testimony, 4/13/78,.p. 9¢.) .

See Section II, C, 4, by (i), (e); Tab F Draft, pp. 5-6.

If the 9/28/63 conversatior received expedited handling

‘ also it is possible that it would have been in the
Station prior to the first or second of October.

A. Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 95.

DIR 84886, 11/23/63, para. 2.

MEXI 7023, 11/23/63, para. 2.

MEXI 7025, 11/23/63, para. 4.

MEXI 7054, 11/24/63,. para. 3.

See discussion in text above and below.

See Section II, C, 4, above. .

Ann _Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p. 94.

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628/ See discussion. above.

'629/ See footnote 614 above.

31/ ISCA Deposition of Robert haw, 5/16/78, p.
position of Allan White, 5/18/78, Be pai David A.
Phillips Testimony, 11/2’/76, p. 63; “David A. Phillips
Testimony, 4/25/78, pp. 17-23; Ann Goodpasture Testimony,
4/13/78, p- 94.07 oo °

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°636/ H. Manell and B. Manell In-:erview, 3/28/78, pps 35; MHSCA

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Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 88-89, 84-86;
~“HSCA Deposition of H. Maiell, 4/28/78, pp. 38-39, 46.

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’°639/ MEXI 6534, 10/15/63.
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640/ HSCA Deposition of B. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 96.

641/ H. Manell ‘and B. Manell Interview, 3/18/78, p. 14-45; VASCA
Deposition of Allan Whit2, 5/18/78, p.: 33-34;“HSCA ve-
‘position of B. Manell, 4/28/78, pp. 84-86, 88-89; “fiSCA
Deposition of H. Manell, 4/28/78,-pp. 38-39, 46;
Goodpasture Testimony, 4/13/78, p- 75. See also Sec-.
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642/ Memorandum for the Ambassador from Winston M. Scott, re:
Lee OSWALD/Contact with the Soviet Embassy, 10/16/63.
Emphasis added.

643/ Manell Interview, 3/28/78, pP- 17
644/ Ibid., PD: 18.

645/ There are some cryptic reference; to the CIA Station trying
to determine Oswald's whereaboits after receiving the
10/11 cable. (See Testimony of Ann Goodpasture, 4/13/78,

p- 113.) The procedures used in this attempt and the
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mined. If any records exist cf these efforts they have
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659-B/ Ibid.
659-C/ MEXI 7014, 11/22/63, para. 3.

659-D/— MEXI 7203, 11/23/63, para. 3.

660/ HSCA Depositin of H. Manell, 4/28/78, p. 53.

661/ JFK Classified Document, #131.
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662/ Ibid.
663/ MEXI 7029, 11/23/63, para. 1.

: 664/ Clasified HSCA Staff Summary, 3/15/78, p. 11.

_ $65/ See Section I1I,.B, 2, above. :

- 666/ MEXI 7014, 11/22/63, “para, 2.
. 667/ DIR 84802, 11/22/63 para. 1. The sequence of the cables

ean be determined in that they were numbered sequen-..
‘tially as they were sent. In this regard it should be .
noted that this system cen indicate the order in which

he cables were sent but rot the order in which they

were written because, at least in Mexico, several of

the Station officers were drafting and sending cables.
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74/ DIR 84886, 11/23/63, para. 2.

Record Sheet for MEXI 7033, 11/23/63; HSCA Deposition
of John Scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 45, 87.

675/ MEXI 7023, 11/23/63.

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7/ MEXI 7025, 11/23/63.

678/. MEXI 7033, 11/23/63.

679/ HSCA staff have wondered wrether or not the Mexico City

Station was entirely forthcoming of their own will

with Headquarters. This speculation was based on three
pieces of information. ‘he first is the report in

MEXI 7024 that Headquarters had all the available in-
formation. The second is a note from Win Scott on the
Routing and Record Sheet for ‘MEXI 7033 which says:

I had a call from Waslington ( John Scelso) at
1620: hours on 23/XI. I told John Scelso at
1630 hours (our time) on 23/xXI that this would
be on route to him.

The third is a cable reporting that on the 23rd Win
Scott had an urgent call to see the President of
Mexico. The cable repori:s that Scott expected the
President to express his condolences over the assas-

Ssination but "developed «chat (Mexican agent) had

located call to Soviet Ellbassy of Lee Oswald

Made on 28 September. Believe fact that (President
of Mexico) aware of this contact (from our joint
operation) and passed da:a to COS is important.”

. (MEXI 7023, 11/23/63, paras. 2 and 3)

The Committee declines to speculate that the Mexico City
Station was possibly con;idering not reporting all
the information availabl:tothem. It was considered

-that this may have been :ontemplated in order to pro-

tect. themselves from a’ciarge about their failure to
report the information prior to the assassination.

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The discovery that the Mexicans were also aware of
the conversations would have made holding back the
transcripts perilous in that the Mexicans could have
revealed their existence to the detriment of the
Station. Hence, the full report followed very shortly’
after the meeting between the Mexican President and
-Win Scott, and immediately after Scott discussed the
situation with his nominal superior in Washington
‘by telephone. Scott's superior was asked about this.
-He said that he did not remember the substance of
his telephone call to Wir Scott on the 23rd. (HSCA
Deposition of John Scelsc, 5/16/78, p. 88) (“I do
not have any idea why (I called). I may have been
ordered to call him on ary number of things." (Ibid.,
p. 87.) He was also asked about Scott's meeting °
with the Mexican Presidert.

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-of Station is called in’to speak to the Presi-
i a dent of Mexico. There had been a big fight
; when the new Ambassadcr got there--no, it wasn't:
: that. It was a very peculiar situation in Mexi-
@ : co whereby the Mexicar. President's primary con-
tact with the U.S. government was through our
Chief of Station rather’ than through the Ambas-
sadors. This caused 1:0 great problem with the
' then-Ambassador whose name I have forgctten. .

‘Q: Thomas Mann?

A: Yes. He was a verw fine guy and recognized
. the usefulness of i:shis arrangement. The next

Ambassador, Mr. Freeman, tried to cut Win
Scott out of conta::t with. the President of ©
Mexico, whereupon i:he President of Mexico
called in Win Scot:: and said, "I want you to
send a cable to the White House telling them
I am not going to «deal with | this jackass, - I
want to deal only vith you."

So, the result was. eventually, Winston
Scott and Ambassador Freeman went to the
White House and talked to President Johnson.
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So, Scott is just :cemarking that it is
4 interesting that the President of Mexico is
4 aware of our telepnone operation.

Q: He should have bee since it was a liaison
operation.

A: Yes. .But you do not always know whether he
- was informed. I tink we always knew he was
informed. I think we always knew he was in-
formed. It is jus: Significant that the per-
: . son calls you in and says, here is some intel-
i ligence about the. kennedy thing.

(HSCA Deposition of John scelso, 5/16/78, pp. 83-84.)

i ' Win Scott indicated that 1e was going to write a memoran-
. dum concerning his meetinj with the President of Mexi-
_ co. (Routing and Record 3hhet for MEXI 7028, 11/23/63.)
; _ © Tf Mr. Scott wrote such a memo, it-has not been made
t available to:the HSCA. David Phillips, who after serv-
@ . , ing in Mexico, went on to accumulate quite an impres-
sive record as a Chief of Station in several countries
_ himself, told Committee iivestigators. that a memoran-
dum of this sort, along with other "sensitive" informa-
tion would be the type of thing that Win Scott probabiy
kept in nes private safe. (David A. Phillips Interview,
8/24/78, p. 10.) Mr. Phillips added that he did not.
know what P nappened to Mr. Scott's safe after he died
i a but he had heard vague stories about someone finding
i a lot of documents that Scott had kept. (Ibid.)

680/ MEXI 7054- 11/24/63, para. 3.--
if  6B1/ MEXI 7024, 11/23/63, para. 3.
i 682/ MExt 7024, 11/23/63, para. 3.
683/ MEXI 7023, 11/26/63, para. 2.°

 684/ See Section II, C, 4, above.

a 685/ For example, MEXI 7023 repocts that a voice comparison
; . was not done. while MEXI 7025 | implies that one was “done

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and a year later Ann Good .asture noted on a newspaper
article that such a compazison was done. Note also
that MEXI 7024 reported tiat HQ had all the available
information when in fact a3ll conversations were reported ce
in a later cable, MEXI 7033.

: ~+ 685/ See SectionilIl, A, 1, above.
86/ See Section III,.A, 1, above.
87/ See Section III, A, l, above.

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Cable re Oswald-Duran, MEXI 7029, November 23, 1963, CIA
No. 441; Raymond Rocca Chronology. WX 7241, Entry 36,
November 23, 1963, CIA Nc. 635..

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92/ Note written by Winston Sectt re phone call with John
Scelso, November 23, 1962; Chronology prepared by Ray-

mond Rocca, WxX7241, entry 37, November 23, 1963, CIA

i - No. 635.

i 693/ Ibid.

| 694/. Ibid.

95/ Chief of Station phone cali. to Luis Echevarria, November 23,
1963, CIA No. 440; Flash Cable from Karaméssines to

i ; Mexico City Station, November 23, 1963, DIR 84916, CIA

No. 4033 Chronology of Réymond Rocca, entry 46, Noven-
ber 23, 1963, CIA No. 636.

: 696/ Blind Memo re ‘Lee Harvey Oswald and Silvia Duran, Novem-
of . ber 26, 1963, CIA #473. .-

"697/ Ibid.

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When President John |. Kennedy was assassinated
on November 22, 1963, the \nited States investigative

agencies--FBI, CIA, Secret Service, etc.--were. asked: to.

investigate the assassinaticn.. When the Central Intelli-

gence Agency's Mexico City Station remembered that Lee
Harvey Oswald had visited Mexico City during late. Septem-
ber and early October, it reviewed the electronic surveil-
lance files and found eviderce of phone calls to the So-

viet Embassy’ made September 27th, September 28th, and

‘October Ist, that could. have been made by Oswald. 685/

Review of the electroic surveillance files also produced
telephone calls on September 27, 1963. between the Russian
Consul and Silvia Ouran, a secretary at the Cuban Consu-
late, where Oswald was discussed. 686/ In addition,

the Mexico City, Station fourd a September 28, 1963 phone
call from Silvia Duran to tke Soviet Consulate where. Silvia
Duran stated that there was an American cit tzen at the

.

Cuban Consulate who had prev fous} ly visited the Soviet Con-

suiate. $&7/ A final prone cati was made on October i,
where the “alleged” Oswald identified himsel® was alss
found. §65/ |

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mined that it would request the Mexican Jur?

with whom it had a good: relitionship--to arrest Silvia
‘Duran (as Stivia Duran was 4 Mexican citizen, she did not
have diplomatic immunity) b2cause she might shed some light
on the circumstances surrouiding the assassination. 688a/

‘The Mexico City Station sent a note to the Gober-
nacion head, Luis Echevarrii, with Silvia Duran's address,
her mother's address, her b-other's address, her license
plate number, her home phon: number, her place of work and
a request that she be arres:ed immediately. 689/ The Mexi-

“co City Station also sugges :ed that Duran he held incommuni-
cado until she could be questioned on the matter. 690/

. The Mexico City Station did not receive prior au-
thorization from CIA Headquirters to request the arrest of
Silvia Duran by Mexican authorities. 691/ Headquarters
feared that a request to arcest Ms. Duran would jeopardize
the clandestine reltationshi) between certain Mexican govern-
ment officials and the CIA “f it were disclosed that Americans
were behind Duran's arrest. 672/ John Scelso, Chief of Western
.Hemisohere/3, stationed at. Langley Headquarters, telephoned
Winston Scott, the Mexice City Chief of Station, anc requestec
(that Stivia Ouran aot be arrested. 693/ Scott told Scelss that

he could not rescind the revuest, and that. Headquarters should

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been arrested. 694/ After dinston Scott’ s conversation

with John Scelso, Scott called Luis Echevarria and stated
that the Mexico City Statioi desired that, all- information
received from Duran be forwarded immediately to the Mexico
City Station, and that her arrest and statements not be
communicated to any leftist groups. 695/ .
On November 27, 1963, the Mexican government for- .

“warded to the Mexico City Station a copy of Silvia Duran's

ten-page signed. statement. 396/ It said,

"Upon learning about the assassination
she and her husband speculated that Presi-
dent Kennedy might have been assassinated
for racial reasons. When she became aware
that the assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald, she
ascertained that it vas the same man who ap-
proximately two montis prior. had been to the
Cuban Consulate to solicit an intransit visa
to Russia. Having tiken his name from the
special documentatio1 he presented she knew
that he was married to a Russian woman and
’ betonged to the "Fair Play for Cuba Committee."
She checked the data in the Consulate archives
and became certain tiat it was the same indi-
vidual who was blond:, short, dressed unelegant-
“ly and whose face turned red when angry. The
Consul had denied the visa because to obtain
an intransit visa from the Cuban government,
it was imperative thit he previously obtain a
visa from the Soviet Consulate. Since obtain-
ing a visa from the Soviets toox four months
anc Oswald's Mexican visa exoired.sosn Oswald
was advised that he see the Soviet Consul, and:
catling the cerson i1 charge of that office.
Thea Soviet official told her that they would
have to conscit Moscow which would take four:
months. That afternoon, Oswale returned. to the

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Cuban Consulate and ‘Silvia Duran confirmed
that he could get a Uuban visa only after he
received a Russian v sa. She gave Oswald her name
and business phone number but never gave him her .,
address because she liad no reason to give it to
him. The only aid she could give Oswald was advising
that he see the Soviet Consul and calling the person
in charge of that of’ice. She knew that phoning the
Soviet Consulate was not one of her duties and that
if she did so she di it only to help Oswald. She
gave Oswald her busiiiess phone number only because he
would have to call sibsequently to check whether he
had obtained a visa. He never called back."

Silvia Duran, releasid on November 24, 1963, was rearrested
November 27, 1963, when the Mexican government alleged that she

_ Was attempting to leave Mex'co for travel to Havana. 698/

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According to-the Mexican of‘icials who detained Duran a second

time, there was no addition to her story. 699/

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The Mexico City Stat:on forwarded Duran's ten-page signed
statement to Headquarters 01 November 27, 1963. 700/ The
following day, Headquarters sent a clarification cable to the
Mexico City Station seeking to insure that neither Silvia.

Duran nor the Cubans would lave any basis for believing that
“the Americans were behind her rearrest. The cable stated,
"We want the Mexican author’ttes to take the responsibility
for the whole affair." 701/

. When the Central Intelligence Agency began to work
with the Warren Commission, Headquarters cabled the Mexico

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City Station that its plan in passing batenation to the.
Warren Commission was to eliminate mention of telephone
taps in.order ‘to protect their continuing operations. 702/
Headquarters cabled that it would rely on. Silvia Duran's
statements and on the Consular files which the Soviets
‘gave the State Department. 703/ Headquarters stressed
that exact, detailed infornation from LITAMIL-7 and
LITAMIL-9--penetration agents in the Cuban Embassy--on

what Silvia Duran and other officials had said about Os-

corroborative evidence. 704/

When the Central Intelligence Agency forwarded to

the Warren Commission a cory of Duran's signed statement.
-It read as follows:

...she remembered. .(that Lee Harvey Oswald)

was the name of an ‘merican who had come to

the Cuban Consulate to obtain. a visa to travel
to Cuba in transit to Russia, the latter part

of September or the early part of October of
this year, and in stpport of his application
had shown his passpert, in which it was noted
that he had lived fr that country for a period
of three years; his labor card from the same
country written in-the Russian language: and
letters in that same Yanguage. He had presented
evidence that he war married to a Russian woman,
anc‘aiso that he wat apparently the leader of

an organization in the city of New Orleans clain-
ing that he should te accepted as a "friend cf

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a _ complying with her cuties, took down all of the:

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_{nformation and completed the soa printe
application form; ard the declarant, ad-
mittedly exceeding rer responsibilities,
informally telephoned the Russian Consulate,
with the intention cf doing what she could
to factlitate issuarce of the Russian visa
to Lee Harvey Oswalc. However, they told
her that there woulc be a delay of about
four months in processing the case, which
annoyed the applicart since, according to
his statement, he wes in a great hurry to
obtain visas that would enable him to travel
to Russia, insistinc on his right to do so
in view of his backcround and his loyalty
and his activities in behalf of the Cuban»
‘ Movement. The declerant was unable to re-
g call accurately whether ornot the applicant
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told her he was a member of. the Communist
Party, but he did say that his. wife***was
then in-New York City, and would follow

him,*** (Senora Duran stated) that when 0s-
d wald understood that it was not possible to

give him a Cuban visa without his first hav-
ing obtained the Russian visa,*** he became
very excited or angry, and accordingly, the
affiant called Consi1 Ascue (sic),*** (who)
came out and began a@ heated disucssion in En-
glish with Oswald, that concluded by Ascue
telling him that "if it were up to him, he
would not give him the visa," and “a person
of his type was harning the Cuban Revolution
rather than helping it," it being understood.
that in their conversation they were talking
about the Russian Scctalist Revolution and

not the Cuban. Oswald maintained that he had
two reasons for requesting that his visa be
issued promptly, anc they were: one, that his
tourist. permit in Mexico was about to expire;
and the other, that he had to get to Russia |
as quickly as possitle. Depsite her annoyance,
the decalarant gave Oswald a paner*** in which.
-she put down her nane, "Silvia Guran," and

the number of the telephone at the Consulate,
which ts "13-28-47" and the visa application

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was processed anyway It was sent to the.
Ministry of (Foreign: Relations of Cuba;. from
which a routine repl: was received some fifteen
to thirty days later, approving the visa, but on

- the condition that the Russian visa be obtained
first, although she Joes not recall whether or.
not Oswald later tel2phoned her at the’ Consulate
number that ‘she gave him. 705/ |

The central Intelligence Agency had relied on Duran's
| statements but had deleted Juran's description of Oswald as
‘blonde and short. 706/ It 1ad also excised Duran's statement--

"The only aid she could giv: Oswald was advising that he see
the Soviet Consul, and calling the person in charge. of that
office" which alluded to: Oswald asking for some type of aid at
the Cuban Consulate. 707/ In addition, Ms. Duran's strong state-
ment "He never.called her back" 107a/ was. changed to "she does
not recall whether or not Oswald later telephoned her at the
Consulate number that she have him.707b/ Had the statements
been. included, the Warren Commission's conclustons would not have
seemed as strong.

. The Warren Commissicn staff was not completely satis-
fied with Ms. Duran's ten fage signed statement obtained by
the Mexican authorities. hk. David Slawson wrote: | .

We then discussed. .the problem of (inter-

viewing) Silvia Duran. We pointed out that

our only interest ir. witnesses (in Mexico)

other than Duran wa: to get their formal testi-

mony for authenticalien purposes...Thtis was

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it totally inadequate, however. It is onl
on details such as Oswald's physical
appearance, side comnents or remarks he
may have made, etc., that we would like to
interrogate Mrs. Ouran further. On the
essential point of wnetherornot his con-
tacts. with the Embassy consisted of anything
other than an attempt to travel to Cuba,
Silvia Duran's knowladge has probably been
exhausted.) 708/ “

The Warren Commission staff's attempts to inter-
view Ms. Duran never succeeded. 709/ Ms. Duran was not
interviewed by Americans until 1976, when two reporters
from the Washington Post interviewed her. 710/ On
dune 6, 1978, representatives of the House Select Committee

con. Assassinations interviewed Ms. Duran in Mexico City.

VI. Information not available at the time of the Warren

Commission investigation

A. Silvia Tirado (nee Duran)
1. House Select Committee on Assassinations €/6/78

. Interview of Silvia Tirado

_ Ms. Tirado (Silvia divorced Horatio Duran in 1968)

. Was never questioned by American officials in 1963. Thus,
_ the Committee established contact with the Mexican gcvern-
ment and requested that the Mexican government make

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Select Committee on: Assassinations the following:
Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Cuban Consulate three
times on September 27, 1963, not twice as the Warren Com-

mission previously reported. -T12/- Oswald first visited

‘the Cuban Consulate at approximately 11:00 a.m., requesting

an intransit visa to Cuba with Russia as the final destina-
tion. 713/ He showed her some documents, then left to
obtain Photographs needed for his application. M4/

Oswald returned at approximately 1: 00 p.m. with —
four photographs. 715/ Ms. Tirado typed the application ©
in duplicate, stapled a picture. on top of each and had Os-
Wald sign each in her presence. 716/ As identification,
Oswald showed | her documents he had brought: his Russian
labor card, marriage certificate with the name of his
Russian wife, his American communist Party membership card
and his "Fair Play for Cuba’ membership card. 717/

Ms. Tirado found Lee Harvey Oswald! Ss behavior Suspi-
cious because normally a Conmunist traveled only with his”
passport as belonging to th: Communist. Party was 717 Fegal
in Mexico in 1963. 7718/

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Party would arrange visa ma:ters for’ their members with the

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Cuban Communist Party. 719/ The American would then

come to Mexico, visit the Cuban Consulate; and receive
his visa immediately. 710/ When Tirado asked Oswald why
‘he did not have the American Communist Party arrange his
trip. to Cuba, he stated tha: he-had not had the time. 721/
| After explaining to liswald that he had to acquire
‘a Russian visa before he could receive a Cuban visa, Tirado
jotted her name and busines:; phone number on a piece of
paper and gave it to Oswald who then left to get his Rus-:
Sian visa. 722/ . .
Oswald returned to tie Cuban Consulate between
5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.; which was after normal working
hours, 10:00 to 2:00 p.m, /23/ The guard called Tirado,
stating that someone who didnot speak Spanish was at the
gate inquiring about a visa. 724/ As routine procedure,
she asked the guard to esco-t the individual to her office. 725/
Oswald told her that he had acquired a Russian visa. 726/
Since he did not produce it when asked, she called the

Russian Consulate. 727/ Th» Consul told Duran that Oswald.

had been to the Consulate raquesting a vis2 and had been
told that the reply would tike appreximately four menths. 728/
when she relayed the messac> to Sewaid, he got very excited,

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of the Cuban Revolution he should eatd a visa.
Oswald stated that he could not wait that long because.
his Mextcan visa expired in three: days. 730/ At this

| point, Ms. Tirado informed tonsul Eusebio Azcue of the
situation. 731/ Azcue had been in his private office
which he shared with his upcoming replacement, Alfredo -

Mirabal. 732/ Azcue polite y explained the requisites

for an intransit visa to Oswald. 733/ When he noticed
that Oswald was.a stubborn nan he told Oswald that he
was obviously not a friend of the Cuban revolution be-
cause he would otherwise understand that Cuba had to be
extremely careful with the peopte it allowed in the coun-
‘try. 734/ Azcue and Oswald. yelled at each other. 735/
Then Azcue went ‘to the door. “opened it and asked: Oswald
to leave. J36/ Oswald did hot revisit or telephone the
Consulate. 737/ Ms. Tirado described Lee Harvey Oswald
as approximately five feet six, with Sparse blonde hair,

weighing about 125 |. ‘poun's. 738/

2. CIA information net available at the time of
the Warren Commission investigation

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of the Central Intelligecne Agency’ s Mexico City Station. 739/
The source, LIRING/3, state that he had recently re-
ceived a call‘ from Silvia Duran, 740/ A telephone tap
on LIRING/3's telephone con*irmed that Silvia Duran had
called LIRING. 741/ LIRING’3 reported that he had visited
Silvia to renew acquiaintan:ees. 742/ During the visit,
Duran told LIRING/3 that sh: had met Lee Harvey Oswald
at the Cuban Consulate when he applied for a visa and
“had dated him on several oc:asions. 743/ Ouran admitted
that she had had intimate relations with Oswald, but in-
sisted that she had no idea of his plans. 744/ In addi-
tion, Duran told LIRING/3 tiat when the news of the as-

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sassination became public kiiowledge, the Mexican govern-
ment arrested her and duriny the interrogation beat her
until she admitted that she had had an affair with Lee
Harvey Oswald. 745/ Rowton 746/ counseled LIRING/3
against any further contact with Ouran because the Cubans
or the Mexican police might become suspicious of him. 747

There is mo indication in Rowton's report as to why con-

tact with Silvia wouta make the Cubans susoicious.

The CIA Mexice City otation report ec this informa-

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with Lee harvey Oswald on several occasions

when the latter was in Mexico is probably

new, but adds little-to the Oswald case.

Second, the Mexican police did not report

the extent of the Duran-Oswald. relationship

to this Station. 7497

In ‘the chronology of the Mexico. City investigation
of Oswald, Raymond Rocca notes: "Why didn't .Mexico
police give us all info?" 750/ . This was not the first
report of such a relationship between Oswald and Duran.
Elena. Garro had reported the same information. to Charles
Thomas in 1965. 251/

That the Mexican government -did not disclose all
the information in its possession to American authorities
raises one of ‘three possibilities: . .

1) the Mexican government, did not want to disclose
that one of its citizens had had intimate rela-
tions with the assassin of John Kennedy; or

2) Silvia’ Duran was a Mexican penetration agent

in the Cuban Consulate and the Mexican govern-
ment. was protecting its informant by minimizing
her relationship with Oswald; er |

3) they forsct, i.e., @ pure ara simple mistake.

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b. The possibility that. Silvia Duran was an
. agent for either American, Mexican or Cuban

Intelligence

Since the Publication of the Warren Commission
Report in September 1964, critics have written about the

’ possibility that Silvia Duran was an intelligence agent

for either the Americans, M2xicans or Cubans.

1) Was Silvia Duran in agent, asset or source

for Mexican or Am2rican intelligence?

In an effort to resolve this question, the House
- Select Committee on Assassi vations reviewed the. United
States investigative agenci2s' files on Silvia Duran. 752/
The Committee found no evidence in this file review that
Silvia Duran was either an \merican or Mexican intelli-
gence agent. -
In addition, the Comaittee has interviewed most
of the Mexico City Station amp loyees about the possibility.
Only David Phillips, Chief of Covert Action and the Cuban
Section in the Mexico City - tation in 1963, a positic

which made him very knowledieabie, considered that Ouran

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"at one time the agency pit :hed 753/ almost everyone
at the Cuban Embassy." 754/ Mr. Phillips stated that:

he had first heard Duran's 1ame from the telephone

that the CIA had no interest in Ms. Duran because “she
wasn't friendly with anyone." 756/ Mr. Phillips had
previously mentioned the C14 Mexico City Station's in-
terest in recruiting a former Cuban Ambassador to Mexico
named Lechuga. 757/ Mr. Phillips was shown a memorandum
written by W. David Slawson of the Warren Commission staff
regarding a trip to Mexico ay Warren Commission staff
members which said: . .

Mr. Scott's (Chief of the CIA Station in Mexi-
co City) narrative disclosed that the CIA's
action immediately after the assassination con-
Sisted basically of alerting all its confiden-
tial sources of information throughout Mexico -
to immediately channel all information into
their headquarters, and of compiling as .com-
plete dossiers as possible on Oswald and every-
one else throughout Mexico who at that time

the CIA knew had had some contact with Oswald...
This meant especially Silvia Duran, who because
she had previously been having an affair with
Lechuga, the Tormer Cuban Ambassador to Mexico
and presently the Cuban representative at the

United Nations, had previously been of substan-
tial _ interest to the CIA...7528/ :

Mr. Philtips was surprised by this and stated

that. "No one ist me in on this operation." 759/ But

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have: been pitched because the Station could not identify .
any of her weaknesses. The Committee staff members then . |
told Mr. Phillips about the reporting on file concerning
Ms. Duran from one of the Station's penetration agents, oo
LITAMIL/9, at the Cuban Embassy. At one point LITAMIL/9. |
_had reported to his case officer that all that would
have to be done to recruit Ms. Duran was to get a blonde,
blue- -eyed ‘American in bed with her. 761/ With this, Mr.
Phillips said that it did indeed sound as if the Station |
had targeted Ms. Duran for recruitment, that the Station's
interest had been substantial, and that the weaknesses
and means had been identified. 762/ Mr. Phillips —
pointed out, however, that because Duran had been targeted
did not necessarily mean that she had been pitched. 763/ . |
‘In addition, he stated that he had never heard that Duran .
had been pitched. 764/ a | |
Mr. Phillips:did state that he would expect that
Ms. Duran's file at the CIA would be “very thick" because
of all the telephone intercepts that concerned her and :
the substantial interest that the Station had in her. 765/
He stated that much of the naterial in her file should ;
predate the assassination. 765/ Mr. Phillips stated that

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he would be very surprised if Ms. Duran's 201 file was

small and contained only a few pre-assassination docu-
ments. 767/ This is in fact the case of the Headquarters
201 file. 768/ “This Committee has asked the CIA to make
Ms. Duran's Mexican "pn 769/ (personality) file available
for review. The CIA informed the Committee that there —
was no "P" file available on Ms. Duran. 770/

Another CIA employee, Dan Neiscuir; who worked on
an "Oswald Task Force" in late September or early October
of 1975 dealing with Freedom of Information Act law suits
brought against the Agency concerning the files on Lee.
Harvey Oswald, stated that he believed that Ms. Duran may
have been a source of information for either the CIA or
the Mexicans. 71/ Mr. Nefscuir could not recall? why he

. specifically had this recollection, but thought that it
was due to something he hac seen in Oswald's file. 772/
He said that it may have been the Agency's attempts to

' protect Ms. Duran after the assassination and the heavy
cable traffic that those attempts generated that led him
to his inference that she was a scurce of information
for either the Agency or the Mexicans. 773/—

Despite LIRING/3's case officer's asking LI@ing/3

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Mr. Neiscuir's hazy recollestions, Se cannot

definitely resolve whether Silvia Duran was a Mexican or

American intelligence agent or source.
(2) was Silvia Duran a Cuban intelligence agent?

In an effort to resolve this question, the HSCA
reviewed the United States investigative agencies' files
on Silvia Duran. 774s The committee found no evidence in
the files that would indicate that Ms. Duran was associated
with Cuban intelligence.

In addition, the HSCA interviewed most of the Mexi-
co City Station employees azout the possibility that Duran
worked for Cuban intelligen:e. Only” Barney Hidalgo, a
CIA officer who travelled t> Mexico City in 1963, considered
the possibility to be likely. 775/ Mr. Hidalgo, professing
not to remember all the details, stated that he. tnought
that Duran was a Cuban intelligence agent. 776/— Hidalgo
said: .

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Silvta Duran ! tied the two together, yes,

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“wanted to. 777/
Mr. Hidalgo further stated that he never resolved
the issue. 778) |
With no corroboratiny evidence for Mr. Hidalgo's
memory, the Committee must :onclude that Silvia Duran

was probably never employed by Cuban Intelligence.

B. The Cubans

1. Eusebio. Azcue .opez ©

When Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly visited the Cuban
Consulate, Eusebio. Azcue Lovez, a. Cuban citizen, was the
Cuban Consul. 779/ Because he had diplomatic immunity,
the Cuban government had never been asked to make him
‘available for questioning. 780/ The Committee, in an ef--
fort to investigate Oswaid's contact. with representatives
of the Cuban government, asked the Cuban government to

make Eusebio Azcue availabis for Committee and staff inter-

tee's request on April 1, 1978. 282/

During that interview, Mr. Azcue alleged that the
man Jack Ruby. shot in the Sailas Potice Station was not
the same individual’ wao had visited the Cuban Consulate

-in.1963. 783/ In addition, #r. Azcue stated that Alfredo
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from Cuba to assume the Coniul's duties, had also been
present during Oswald's visit. 784/ During a second

‘trip to Cuba, the Committee interviewed Alfredo Mirabal. 785/

Subsequent to this second tip to Havana, the Committee
asked the Cuban government: :o make Eusebio Azcue and |

Alfredo Mirabal available for the public hearings on Sep-

tember 18, 1978. 786/ The cuban government complied with
_ the Committee! S request.
Eusebio Azcue Lopez :old the House Select Committee
on Assassinations ata publ ic hearing on 9/18/78 the

following:

-An individual who gave the name Lee Harvey Oswald
€: Oo visited the Cuban Consulate on three occasions in late
September 787/ and early Oc:ober 1963..788/ The indivi-
duat first visited the Cubain Consulate during working
hours, requesting an intransit visa to Cuba with Russia

as the final destination. 739/ ‘The man showed the secre-

tary, Silvia Duran, some documents 7892/ which he believed
would-be sufficient to obtain a visa. 7895+ When the

secretary would not grant h:m a visa, the man asked Azcue

to see whether upon axamina:ion of the documents he could
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The individual then left tc obtain photographs needed
for his application: 789e/
| - The man probably returned on September 27, 1963 789f/
with the photographs and ccmpleted the applications ~
in Ms. Duran's presence. 78¢q/ As the amount of time re-
quired to process this document could have taken as long
as twenty days. or the respcnse could have been negative,
Azcue told the man that he could grant him an intransit
‘visa to Cuba, without consulting his government, if he
had a Russian visa. 7g9h/ The individual then left -to
attempt to obtain his Russian visa. 789i/ |
After the man left the Cuban Consulate, Azcue re- |
ceived a telephone call 789j/ from the Soviet Consulte. 790/
The Soviet Consul explained that the man's documents
were legitimate, but that the Soviet Consulate could not
issue a visa until {t received authorization from Moscow. 791/
Emphasizing that the Cuban Consulate never re-
ceived visitors after working hours 792/ Mr. Azcue opined
that the individual probabiy returned to the Consulate
on September 28,. 3963. 793/- When Azcue explained to
_Oswatd that he could not grant him a visa, the man made
statements directed against Cuba and called Cuba a

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asked the individual to leave the Consulate. 7195/ Oswald
did not revisit the Consula:e. 796/
Mr. Azcue described -he man who visited the Consu- |
late as follows: a white male, between 5'6" and 5! 7,
over 30 years of age, very chin long face, with straight
eyebrows and a cold look in his eyes. 797/ Azcue alleged
that he would never have identified Lee Harvey Oswald as

the man who visited the Cub.in Consulate in 1963.
2. Alfrédo Mirabal Diaz~

Alfredo Mirabal Diaz told the House Select Committee
on Assassinations, at a public hearing on 9/18/78, T97A/
the! following: .

Lee Harvey Oswald, seeking a visa, visited the
‘Cuban Consulate twice 798/- in September 1963. 799/ ° Since
Mirabal could not speak English though he was the new Con-
sul, ex-Consul Azcue handle the matter. 800/ On both
occasions there were such 1o9ud arguments between Jswaid
and Azcue that Mirabal tnoujht that the man's visit to
the Consulate was a c2se.of provocation. 8Ci/

Though Miracal caugh: only glimpses of the man

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Oswald who visited the Constlate. 802/ Mirabel was about

4 meters away from Oswald eéch time he caught glimpses of

him. 802a/ Oswald was at the Consulate between 15 and 20.

minutes on each visit. 802b,

C. Elena Garro de Pa:

On October 5,.1964, eleven days after the publication

of the Warren Commission Retort, Elena Garro.de Paz' story

alleging Lee Harvey Oswald's presence at a party in Mexico

City attended by Cuban govel'nment personnel came to the attention

of the Central Intelligence Agency. 803/

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1. Elena's story as reported October 5, 1964

Elena Garro de Paz 8(14/ and-Deba Garro de Guerrero

Galvan, first cousins of Horatio, Ruben and Lydia Duran,

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-were invited to a twist parvy at the home of Ruben Duran

in the middle of the week in the fall of 1963. 805/ Lee
Harvey Oswald was alleged tu have been at this party in
the company of "two other beatnik-looking boys.” 806/

The Americans remained toge:her the entire evening and

did not dance. 307/ When E ena tried to soeak with the

Americans,’she was "shifted" to another recin by one cf.

“her cousins. 808/— The memo does not state whether Elena

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to the Americans. One of E’ena's cousins told her at
the time that (he or she) d'd not know who the Americans
were except that Silvia Durin (an employee of the Cuban
Embassy and the wife of. Horetio Duran), had brought

them to ‘the party. "809/

The day after the party, Elena and Deba saw the
three Americans on the Insurgentes, a main avenue in
Mexico City. 810/ The Garros claimed ‘that they had recog-
nized Oswald's photograph wien it was published after

the assassination. 811/ Si:via Duran’ ‘S arrest "“under-

“lined the Garros’’ certainty’ that the man had been Lee

Harvey Oswald. 812/
The source of the meno was a witting 813/ Central

Intelligence Agency asset krown by the cryptonym LICOOKIE/1

; whom the Committee identified as June Cobb Sharp while.

reviewing the LICOOKIE file. According to Elena, Ms.

Cobb was sent to her house shortly after the assassination
for a few days, by 4a mutuat friend, a Costa Rican writer
named Eunice Odio. 814; Ms. Garro asserted that while

at her house, Ms. Cobb exoressed interest in the Kernedy
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was visiting, got drunk and told the whole story. 236/
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that she would arrange a meeting with the CIA Station
Chief. 818/ The meeting dic not occur because Ms.’ Cobb - |
was asked to leave the Garro house evidently because
she kicked Elena's cat. 819/° A notation on the memo says
that LICOOKIE/1 never regained contact with Elena Garro
de Paz. 820/
The LICOOKIE memo was not inserted in either the
Elena Garro or Lee Harvey Oswald "P™ 821/ (personality)
file but in a local leftist and Cuban project file. The
“Committee learned about the memo from Wx-7241, a chrono-
logical history of the Oswald case prepared by Raymond
Rocca for the CIA in 1967. The memo was found in Decem-
“ber, 1965 by Stanley Watson. A marginal notation on
Wx724} says, “Why, was this not sent to Headquarters?" 823/
The. Committee has been able to determine that the memo

was forwarded to Headquarters shortly thereafter.

2. Octazer 12..19€& CIA Memo for the Record
Gn October 32, 1964 tre CIA Mexico city 3t tation’ $
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her story to Eunice Odio. 874/

The Committee has no: been able to determine if
Elena Garro told Ms. Odio the story personally or if
Ms. Cobb related the story :o Ms. Odio who relayed it to
"Tichborn." 825/ . .
The story is.not as jetailed as the 10/5/64 ver- —
Sion. There is no mention »f Deba Garro Guerrero Galvan.
The story, perhaps because it is third hand, differs
from the previous story in. :wo areas: It states that
the party was at the Cuban imbassy, as opposed to Ruben
Duran's; and that Elena talced to a Cuban Embassy offi-
cial instead of her cousins about the three Americans.

“Attached to the memo was a note from Flannery. to

want me to send the gist of this to Headquarters?" Scott
then noted that the memo should be filed. 826/ The file
indications show that the m:mo went into the Oswald "P*

file and the Elena Garro "P' file. 827/

3: November 24, 1964 C'A Informant Resort

Sn Rovemder 24, 1353 2 Sentral Intelligence Agency

agent 823. “remartad tafernitisn. a23 e23/ derived. from an asset,

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an "American Communist” who rented a room from Elena
Garro. 831/ In addition, the informant claimed that
' ETena had also told her stcry to an American official
at the Embassy, who claimed to represent the Warren Com-
mission. 832/ The Chief of Station noted that he had
asked LICHANT/1 to pursue the story 833/ but there is
“no indication that the. Chief of Station followed through
with the request. 834/,

4. November 24, 1964 Elena Garro meeting with
“Mexico City Legal Attache officers

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Mexico City Legal Attache on November 24, 1964. 835/
(The Legal Attache in 1964 was Clark Anderson.) They |
recounted the same story previously given to June Cobb
Sharp. in Gctober 1964. 836/° Elena gave the date of the
| party as September 30, October 1. or October 2, 1963. 837/ ;
The agent who wrote the repert 838/ noted that Lee Harvey —
Oswald could not have deen identical with the American 239/ ;
allegedly observec by Mrs. Paz at the party if this party
“were seid ae the evening of Oezeber 3 or October 2, 1963. 840/ é
Elena was queszionec regarding the identity of

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the party her ‘daughter met 1 young man named "Alejandro"

- at the party and.danced wit) him. 842/ He was apparently

_ On several occasions after.the party. 843/ The daughter

‘did not take the calls and is a result "Alejandro" wrote

Stenius. 845/

mark dated September 2, 1963. 846/ When this was pointed

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who might have been in a position to observe the three

Americans. 841/ Elena stat:d that in the course of
quite smitten with the daugiter and tried to call her

several letters to the daugiter. 844/ Ms. Garro exhibited
two of the letters, as well as a business card which

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identified the young man as Ario Alejandro Lavagnini

The letter which Ms. Garro said was the first
written by the young man to her daughter bore the date

September 1, 1963 and. the Mexico City Post Office post-

out .to Ms. Garro she commented that the Communists pro-.
bably had facilities for falsifying postmarks. 847/

To investigate Ms. Girro's story further, repre-
sentatives from the Legal Attache's office interviewed
Ario Alejandro Lavagnini Stanius on November 27, 1964. 848/
Lavagnini recailed that there were approximately thirty

peopte at Ruben Suran’s sarty, few.of whom he knew. 849/

He recalled having met a Mecican girl who had recently

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‘returned from living in Fraice. 850/° He was unable to
fix the date of the party bit felt it was probably early
in September because of a heavy rain which occurred as they
were leaving the party abou: 2:00 a.m. B51/— -

Lavagnini said that 10 Americans were present at
this, party. 852/ He was familiar with the physical de-
scription of Lee Harvey Oswild because of publicity fol-
lowing the assassination of President Kennedy, but other- -
wise had no knowledge of hin and had never seen him except
for news photographs following the assassination. 853/

Lavagnini was the only person interviewed by
the Legal Attache representutives who attended parties: at
the. Duran house in the Septomber- October time frame.

There is no indication in the FBI document that :
this information was given <o the Central Intelligence

Agency's Mexico City Station. 854/

. 5. Charles Thomas' f rst meeting with Elena Garro
where. bee Harvey (Mswald is discussed

On 12/10/65, Charles Thomas, a political officer
at the American Embassy, write a memorandum about a con-

versation with Elena Garro de Paz. 855/ The Meeting

with Elena had been about or hen Mattes oe =she men-
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tioned knowing Oswald. 857/ Thomas noted that she was
reluctant to talk but did. 358/

Elena's story reported here is the same as that

given in the LICOOKIE memo dated 10/5/64, but with more

details. She said that General Jose Jesus Clark Flores
(a friend of Ruben Duran's), Silvia Duran, Eusebio Azcue,
Emilio Carballido {a pro-Conmunist writer-friend of the
Durans), and a Latin. American Negro man with red hair
(unidentified) were at the party. 859/. A marginal com-
Ment by this entry in Wx-7241 says, "How did Elena know
“about a red-haired Negro?” 860/ Elena also told Thomas

that she had later learned that "Silvia Duran had been

Oswald's mistress while he was there." 861/ A note by

this entry in Wx-7241 says, "How did Elena Garro know

about Silvia being the mistress of Oswald? -This is 1965."
862/ ‘The Mexico City Station did not hear about the

- Oswald-Duran "affair" until July 1967 when a CIA asset,
LIRING/3, reported it. 863/ 7

Elena told Thomas that she and her daughter had

gone to the Cuban Embassy on November 23, 1963 and shouted
"Assassins" and other insults at the Embassy employees. 864/
According to Elena, that same day, a friend, Manuel Cal-

villo, whom the Garros thougs

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Gobernacion, took her and her daughter to a small hotel
in the center of Mexico City. 865/ Calvillo kept Elena
Garro and her daughter. there for eight days under the pre-
text that they were in danger of: being harmed physically
by Communists. 866/ Elena claimed she told Calvillo
her story and that she wanted to tell it to the American
-authorities at the U.S. Embassy 867/ but that Calvillo
dissuaded her by telling her that the American Embassy
was. full of Communist spies. 868/ Elena said that some
of the other people who had been at the party were. taken
to Veracruz where they, were "protected" by Governor
Lopez Arias. 869/ She said that Ruben Duran, reportedly
“protected” by General Clare Flores, was very: prosperous

and was driving a big car. 370/ Elena also claimed

that he was not really a Conmunist- and that killing, Ken-
nedy had been a mistake. 871/ Ruben Duran claimed he
had no reason to tell Elena that killing Kennedy had been
a mistake since he had no iivolvement. 872/
. Charles Thomas circulated a copy cf his memorandum
concerning Elena's allegations in the American Embassy
inciuding the Central Intei ligence Agency' s Mexico City
Station to aid them in thet investigation of the John

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“the memo: “What an imaginat.on she hasi?! Should we

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send to Headquarters?" 874/ The. Officer replied, on
the memo, "Suggest sending. There have been stories
“around town about all this, and Thomas is not the only
person she has talked to.. -{f memory serves me, didn’ t
LICOOKIE refer to Oswald and the local leftists and Cu-
bans in one of her squibs?” 875/
The Mexico City Station cabled the information in
Thomas' 12/10/65 memorandum of conversation to CIA Head-
quarters. 876/ =The cable reported that Elena's story
would be checked with LICHANT/1, against the production
from the Cuban surveillance operation "and other _
sources." 877/ Winston Scott wrote, next to the routing
indications on the cable, "Please ask Charles Thomas if
he'll ‘follow up.' Get auestions from Ann 6. 878/ _ |
Please let's discuss. Tharks.” 879/
| After the December” 10 memorandum of conversation,
- Winston Scott 889/ and Nattan Ferris 881/ called Charles
Thomas for a meeting. 882/. They asked him to get a more

detailed account. of Hs. Garre's story. 883; At this

meeting, Winston Scott made: it clear that the FBI had

full responsibility for anv further investigation in the

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6. Charles Thomas' Meeting with Elena Garro on

December 25, 1965

Thomas met with Elena again on December 25, 1965.
On that date, he wrote a memorandum of conversation which
provided a much more detailed restatement of Ms. Garro's’
alleged encounter with Lee Harvey Oswald. 885/

Elena admitted that she had spoken to two men at
the Embassy, "presumably from the Legal Attache’ s Of--
fice." 886/ Elena said thet she did not tell them
the complete story because “the Embassy officers did not
give much credence to anytt ing she and Elenita said." 887/

She stated that the party had been at Ruben Ouran's
home. 888/ She was unclear about the date of the
party. 889/ She thought i1 had been a few days before
the Soviet Astronaut, Gagarin, visited Mexico; she thought
that this would put the party around September 2 or 3,
1963. B90/ She believed that the party was ona Monday
or Tuesday because it was an odd night for a party. 891/ .
Elena could mot check her calendar to refresh her memory

“at the: time of. this interview because the calendar was
in a desk that had been stored away. B32 _
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hair and a rather long prot-uding. chin." 896/° The other

She said that Ricardo Guerra, whom she claimed converted

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and his companions. 893/ The man who she thought was Os-
wald wore a. black Sweater. 394/ . She said he was quiet
“and stared a lot at the floor." 895/ One of his com-

panions “was very tall and ;lender and had long blond

companion was also tall, with short, light brown hair ,
and no distinguishing chara:teristics. 897/ The three
Americans did not dance or nix with the other guests. 898/
Elena saw the same three mei on the street the next |
day. 899/—

Elena was certain that Eusebio Azcue, Horacio
Duran, Silvia Duran, Lydia Juran, -Deba Guerrero, General
Clark Flores and his mistress, a doctor from Dalinde Hos-
pital, a young American cousle who were honeymooning in

Mexico, and several other p2ople were at the party. 900/

Horatio Duran to Communism, and his wife, Rosario Castel-
‘lanos, were supposedto be at the party but did not at-
tend. 901/ : |
| . Elena alieged that the red-haired man and Emilio
Carballido were not at the darty that Oswald attended
hut at another party where Sarballido and Arcus ot into

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a heated argument about Pre:.ident Kennedy. 902/ "They
came to the conclusion that the only solution was to_
kil} him 3087 Elena was not clear.on whether this party
was before or after the par-y where she met Oswald. 905/
Eusebio. Azcue stated that this conversation never |
occurred. 906/" | .
Elena reitereated that the incident. at the Cuban
Embassy, where she and her daughter shouted "assassins,"
etc., at the Embassy employes, occurred on November 23
at or about 3:00 p.m. 907/ Elena and Elenita were driven
to the Cuban Embassy by Eleua's brother who was embar-
rassed by their behavior. 918/ This occurred before
_ they had seen photographs 0° Oswald. 909/
Ms. Garro claimed that later in-the day she and
Elenita were visited by Manuel Calvillo who told them
that they were in serious danger from the Communists and
that he would take them to « small hotel, where they
would be safe for a few days. 910/ Elena said she
—: trusted and believed Calvil o because he was a known
| undercover agent for the Me::ico Government. Qli/ He
was also a friend of Noe Pa omares 912/and of President
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. 913/ ‘Culvillo also told Elena and

her daughter that Silvia Duran had been arrested. 914/

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Duran's arrest was not public information at that time. 915/ |
| Elena could not remember the name of the hotel

so that same day (12/25/65) she took Thomas to the sec-: |
‘tion of Mexico City where she thought it was.°916/ They

found the hotel, the Hotel Vermont. 917/ Elena-said |
‘ that she assumed that Calvillo had registered them as rela-

tives or friends from San Luis Potosi. 918/ They stayed

at the hotel until the following Friday, November 30, 1963,
. hardly leaving their rooms. 919/

Elena claimed that while she and Elenita were at

the hotel they saw the photos of Oswald -and realized

that he had been the man at Ruben Duran’ s party. 920/

When Calvillo visited them at the hotel, Elena told him

‘that she wanted to report ter story, which she related

to Calvillo, to the Americéen Embassy. Calvillo, however, .

dissuaded her by saying ‘thet the American Embassy was

full of Communists. g21/. ‘Elena stated that when.she

returned home, guards were posted outside her house. “92 922/

Elena alleged that efter she returned heme she.

Saw. her sister, Deba Guerrero, who had independetly

come to the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald ned been

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cause approximately two morths after the assassinazion

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that she had been to a party with Oswald. 924/ Deba,
consequently, would not accompany Elena to the American
Embassy to tell her story 02 November 24, 1964. 925/
“Elena stated that it was "common knowledge" that.
Silvia had been Oswald's mistress. 926/ When asked who.
could verify the allegation, she could only remember one
person who had.told her this.-927/ .Elena claimed that
person was Victor Rico Galan, 928/. a "pro-Castro journa-
Vist." 929/ (See Section VI, A,.2, a, above.)
Subsequent to December 25, 1965, Elena found her
calendar and reconstructed the date of the party as
Tate September and not early September. 930/ When Tho-

_ mas went to Ferris’ office and informed him, Ferris re-
plied that Elena had given the late September date when
she had originally reported her story at the American
Embassy. 931/ However, fir. Ferris explained to. Thomas - .
that someone who had been at the twist party had stated

_ that there were no Americans there. 932/ Mr. Ferris
did not tel! Mr. Thomas that Aris Alejandro Lavagnint

_Stenius had provided this information in 1964. 933/

Mr. Ferris suggested that it was not necessary for Taomas

to pursue Elena‘ $ allegatitns since he considered the.

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Thomas forwarded (the same day) a copy of his

memorandum to the Central Intelligence Agency's Mexico
City Station to aid in its investigation of the John F.
Kennedy assassination. 935/ “on the first page of the
memorandum of conversation, Winston Scott wrote,
"Shouldn't we send to Headquarters?" Someone responded,

"Of course." 936/

The Mexico City Station sent a cable to Head-

quarters on December 12, 1955, reporting that it was

“following:up" and would casle the results. 937/

7. December 27, 1965 Legal Attache Memo to the

United States Ambissador re Elena Garro

On December 27, 1965 Nathan Ferris wrote a memo
to the Ambassacor reporting that Elena and her daughter
were interviewed on 17 and 24 November 1964 by the Legal
Attache's office in Mexico ‘city. 933/ The memo recorded
that Elena and her daughter had furnished information si-
mijar to the infcormaticn resorted in Taomas' 12/10/65
memo. 929; Tne memo further stated,

“Inquiries conducted at that time (tlovember
1964), Rowever, faiizd te substantiate the

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and her daughter. I1 view of the fact
that Mrs. Garro de Piz’ allegations
have been previously checked out without
substantiation, no further action is
being taken concerniig her recent repeti-
tion of those allegations. 940/ ,

' “The Legal Attache forwarded a copy of the memoran-—
dum to the Central Intellig2nce Agency's Mexico City —
Station 941/ prior to 12/23/65. 942/_

A cable written by Anne Goodpasture on December
29, 1965 reporting the Legat interview with Elena and
the Legat Office's failure to substantiate Elena's story
was sent to Headquarters. 943/ The cable promised to
keep Headquarters advised if any further information
was to developed. 944/ .

LICOOKIE's 10/5/64 memo is attached to the 12/29/65 -
cable. Wx-7241 explained this in a marginal comment, "This

" document by LICCOKIE was not in (Oswald's file), but

was copied from {a project file) and attached ‘to MEXI
5741, 29 Dec. 65." 946/

A note stapled to this cable by’ Allen White stated,
"I don't know what FRI 4id in Novemper, 1963, but the

Garros have deen talcing about this for & long time»

and she is said ts 52 extremely brignt.” s47/ Anne Good-
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refute Ms. Garro de Paz’ information and follow up." 948/

Win Scott wrote, "She is also ‘nuts.'" 949/ |

8. CIA Investigation of Elena's altegation that

. She created a disturbance at the Cuban Embassy
on November 23, 1963 |

a On February 3, 1966, Anne Goodpasture forwarded
Thomas' December 25, 1965 memo to the Cuban section at
the Mexico City Station with an attached note asking

the Section. to check whether Elena was "seen creating

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. Embassy." 950/ -

. One Cuban section officer responded, “No bells

ring with me." Another one wrote, “Me neither." The .
third officer wrote, “Nc pictures either.” 951/ There is no indica
_tion, after reviewing A flee, tas the penetration agents in ;
the Cuban Embassy were queried about Elena's allegation: 952/. That
there are no pictures is reasonable since Elena claimed

that tha event haaven nad: Tl} ona Saturday at 2:00 9o.m.

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Cuban Embassy photographic surveillance showed no sur-
veillance on 11/23/63. 954/ The Committee found: that
Central Intelligence Agency made no other effort to

corroborate Ms. Garro'’s all2gations.

Ambassador Regarding Elena Garro's Allegations

On 2/23/66 the Legal Attache wrote a memo to the
Ambassador reporting that "axtensive investigation"
failed to disclose that Oswald had traveled to Mexico
prior to. September 26, 1963 and that no information had
developed that would show that he had not. been in New
Orleans in the early part of that month. 955/ The memo
reiterated that no further action was being taken by
the FBI because Elena's allagations had not been substan-
tiated by it. 956/ The Legal Attache forwarded a copy
ef this memo to the Central Intelligence Agency's Mexico
City Station. 957/ A marginal comment made by Raymond

Rocca next to this entry in Wx-7241 says, “How can it

ba ascertained that Cswa!a did not travel te Mexico

srier to eariy Sestember 1953? There must be scme basis

for Elena's reporting." 958/
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Allegation that She Had Stayed at the Hotel

Vermont from the Day After the Assassination
Until November 3(), 1963

On 10/13/66, the Legi.] Attache wrote a memo to

Win Scott reporting that a reliable confidential infor-

mant had reported that the records of the Hotel Vermont

disclosed that one "Elena Piz, housewife from San Luis

Potosi,” had registered at the Hotel Vermont on November

23, 1963. 959/ She left on November 30, 1963. 960/

The memo said, "The above irdividual may or may not be
identical with Elena Garro ce Paz." 961/ The House Se-
lect’ Committee on Assassinations has been unable to deter-

mine why the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal

Bureau of Investigations waited ‘until 1966 to investigate

this aspect of Elena's stor).

Charles Thomas' 12/2! /65 memo stating "She and

her daughter dig not personslly register at the hotel.

She tninks Calville registered them as relatives or
friends of ‘his from San Luis. Potasi, " corroborates

fieqa sarro’s presence at te Hotel Vermont. 962/ The :
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notation, "This is what Elena claimed and no one would

believe her." 963/

11. Charles Thomas’ September 30, 1969 Letter to
State Department and Legal Attache's Response

No further report on Elena's story was generated
until 1969 when Charles Thomas was "selected out" of the
United States Foreign Service. 964/ At that time, he
wrote a memorandum to the Secretary off State which in-

cluded a cover letter stating, "Since I was the Embassy

Officer in Mexico who acquired this intelligence informa-
tion, I feel a responsibility for seeing it through to_
ee its final evaluation." 965/ .

- | Charles Thomas' memorandum stated that "he got

no reaction from Nathan Ferris and Winston Scott" regard-

“Ate

ing his memorandum of. December 25, 1965. 966/ In addt-
tion, Thomas wrote that the only person to speak to him
about the Secember 25, 1965 memorandum, Clarence Bocn-

stra 967/ told him that Gswald had not been in Mexico

on the date given for the carty. 968/ Thomas noted that

ever when he retteratead: that Elena had not changed her

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account, Boonstra stated thit the date was wrong and dis-
missed the entire affair. 96)/ a -

One of the “Mexico City Legat Officers, Nathan
Ferris, in reply to Thomas' letter and memorandum, asserted
that Thomas’ office had bee: advised. by memoranda dated
December 27, 1965 and February 23, 1966 that since Elena
Garro's allegations had previously been. investigated
withdut Substantiation, no ‘urther action was being taken
concerning her recent repet tion of those allegations. 970/
In its report, the Legat's O‘fice concluded that either
the Counselor for Political Affairs did not. route the
memoranda to Charles Thomas « or that Thomas did not re-
call receiving them. 97/

Thomas wrote that when he went to Nathan Ferris'
office to inform him that E-ena had found her calendar 972a/
and had reconstructed the dite of the party as late |
September, Ferris replied that Elena had given the late
September. date when she had originally reported her st tory
at the American Embassy. 97z/ Thomas noted that Ferris ,
exolainee that someone who bad been at the party had

Stated that. there had not been any Americans in attendance. §73/

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clearly been mistaken about the identity of the Ameri-

can she saw there, but neve- doubted that she had seen

gested that it was not necessary for Thomas to pursue

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the matter since he conside-ed the Oswald case closed

and had heard all the rumor: before. 975/

| . The Legal. Attache's -eply to Thomas’ memo - ‘Stated
that Mr. Ferris had not told Thomas that someone who was
at the party had stated tha: there had not been any Ameri-

cans present. 976/ The Legil Attache's memo asserted

for him to pursue the matte ~ any further since Elena's
story had been investigated previously without being

substantiated. 977/ In addition, the memo Stated that
Thomas had been told that Elena's story was considered

a closed issue, not that th: Oswald case was closed. 978/

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Investigation of ‘Elena Garro's Allegations

The douse Select Comnittee on Assassinations in-

and. personal interviews. The Committ ee | requested and

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reviewed the CIA's, FBI's and State Department's files
on Elena Garro de Paz, Elen ta Garro de Paz, Manuel. Calvillo,

Noe W. Palomares, June Cobb Sharp, Victor Rico Galan,

Eunice Odio, Sylvia Duran, -lydia Duran, Ruben Duran, Betty
Serratos, Horatio Duran, Eu:ebio Azcue, and Emilio Car-
ballido. Only the Elena Garro de Paz File contained in-

formation on her allegation::. Though all the names listed

above played a role in Eleni Garro de Paz' story, not one

of their files included a reference to Elena Garro de Paz.

Furthermore, the House Select Committee on “Assassina-

tions requested and reviewed the Central Intelligence
Agency's LICOOKIE/1, LICHAN'’/1, LIRING/3, and TICHBORN
files. Once again, not one of the files included a men-

tion of Elena Garro's allegitions. The House Select Con-

‘mittee on Assassinations leurned that LICOOKIE/1, who first
reported to the CIA Elena's s allegation, was June Cobb
Sharp. 979/ -  LICHANT/1 was

Manuel Calvillo who had hidden Elena Garro and her daughter

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ec a ina hotel the day followiny the assassination. 980/
He also told Elena that Silvia Duran had been arrested
before this fact had become public know! edge. cei/

Since a File review was inconciusive, the Committee

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Duran, Elena and ElenitaGarro, Silvia Duran, Lynn Duran,
Emilio Carbillido and Betty Serratos. 982/ The Mexican
Government informed the House Select Committee on Assassina-
tions that Elena and Elenita Garro disappeared. in 1968
- during the student uprisings and have never returned to
Mexico. 983/ ‘The officials stated that Elena and her

daughter might be in Spain. 984/, The Mexican government

reported that Emilio Carballido could not be found. 985/
The others were > interviewed between June. 1 and June 6,

1978. 986/

Betty Serratos, Lydia Duran, Ruben Duran and
Horatio Duran all stated thit Elena was not the dancing

type and. therefore did not rttend any of the twist parties

Elena or Elenita Garro ever attended twist parties at the

‘Duran homes, she recalled E.ena attending one twist party
- at Ruben's home in 1963 after the Garros returned to Mexico

from France. 988/ AV} the lurans denied that bee Harvey

Oswald had attended any par:y at one of their homes. 989/

The Committee next asked the Central Intailigenca

Agency to arrange intervi ew: with LICHANT, y (Manvel Calvitio),.-
-LICOGKIE/1 (June Cobo}, who may have had informatis n related |

to Lee Harvey Gswald’s srip to Mexico City. 939/ The
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Central Intelligence Agency declined to aid the Committee
in this aspect of the investigation. 991/

. The Committee returned to Mexico City on August 7;
1978 and attempted to locate June Cobb Sharp and Manuel
Calvillo. on its own. (992/

. The’ Mexican governnert told the Committee that

June Cobb Sharp received a tourist permit, number 72781,

on June 27, 1947 when she ertered Mexico through Nuevo

Lardeo. She asked, but was denied, permission to repre-

sent the magazine, Modern Mexico. On June 21, 1948, she
received a coutesy permiet, number 25556. "Furthermore,
the Mexican government explained that she disappeared «in
1954 and never returned to Mexico. 993/

The Committee believes that this. information is
incorrect. According to Ms. Cobb's CIA file, she worked
‘for the agency as an asset in Mexico from 1961 through

1966. 994/ ‘Elena also stated that Ms. Cobb resided at
her home in 1964. 995/ .

The Mexican government told the Committee that
Manuel Calvillo did not live at Cuchtenoc &77-3 as the
Committee had informed it. Tae Mexican Sovernmant's

agent-in-charge hag spoken to the superintendent at tre

apartments at which Manuet Catvillo was: bel? eved to reside,

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and was informed by the Sup2rintendent who had worked
at the apartments for twenty-five years, said that no
Manuel Calvillo had ever resided there. When Committee
staffers gave the Mexican g)vernment Calvillo's pen
name, the Mexicans gave the same answers. 996/
The Committee believ:s that there is a possibility
that Mr. Calvillo lived at chis address since it acquired
' the address from-a recent CiA document. 997/ .
| The Committee believis that there is a possibility
that a U.S. Government agen::y requested the Mexican govern-
ment to refrain from aiding the Committee with this aspect
of its work. 998/ (See Provedural Write- up Trip 2 Mexico
City and Section VII, C, be: ow.)
The Committee made every attempt possible to locate
_ Elena. On July 7, 1978 the Committee telephoned her pub-
lisher, Mortiz, in Mexico C ty and inquired about Elena's
whereabouts. 999/ The publ: sher stated that Ms. Garro
was. ‘living in the Hote] S.A.C.E. in Madrid, Spain. 1000/
The Committ ee telephoned the Hotel S.A.C.E. in Spain and
spoke te the manager who to d him that Ms. Garro had

moved. 1O03/ On duty 14, 1°78 che Committee called her

publisher again and was toi: to contact the Mexican Embassy .

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in Madrid, Spain. 1002/ The: publisher stated that aq
Elena's payments were sent “here because she did not’
even trust her publisher wich her address. »1003/

The Committee called: the Mexican Embassy in.

‘Madrid, Spain ‘and spoke to ndol fo Padilla, a Mexican em- -

ployee of the Embassy who Scated that when Elena had

visited the Embassy a coupls of weeks before to pick up

a check she seemed financia ly destitute. 1004/ He.

stated that when he asked E ena her new address she

declined to give one, stating that she would return every
.'few weeks to pick up checks and mail. 1005/ The Commit-

tee gave Padilla a telephon: number and a message asking

Elena to telephone the Comm ttee collect. 1006/

; On September 55 1978 Elena Garro called the Commit-

tee. 1057/ When it was exp” ained that the Committee wished
to talk to her itn person and would pay both her daughter’ s
and her travel from Spain tn the United States, Ms. Garro
asked why she should believe the Committee was what it

ciatmed to 54. 1008/ The Committee asked Ms. Garro to

call pack collect in the nect faw days wren it could ex-
plain to ner when and where she couls receive.a Committee
letter celineacing why the Lommittee wished to interview
her. 3609/ The Committee wote the letter: and made arrange-

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ments with the State Departnent for a tetter to be hand-
delivered to Elena at the Anerican Embassy. in Spain. 1010/

: On September 7, 1978, Elena Garro called the Com-
mittee and asked when the latter would arrive. 1011/
The Committee explained that she could pick up the letter
on Monday, September 11, 1978 from George Phelan, the
Counsellor for Consular Affairs at the American Embas-
Sy. 1012/ Ms. Garro stated that she would get the letter
on September 11, 1978 and f31low our suggestions. 1013/

Ms. Garro never went to the American Embassy in

Spain to pick up the Committee's letter. 1014/ The

Committee, hoping she would pick up the letter before

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her flight date, proceeded to purchase air tickets for

up the tickets at the airpo-t. 1016/ The Committee has
not been able to regain conzact with Ms. de Paz again.
The Committee also iivestigated whether Charles

both Elena and her daughter. 1.015/ Elena did not pick (
Thomas’ “selection out" was related to the Oswald case.

After interviewing his widow, Ms. Cynthia Thomas, the

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Committee has concluded tha: his dismissal was unre-

Fated. 1017/

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cate that Lee Harvey Oswald, on one night while he was
in Mexico, attended a "twis: party” at the home of Ruben
“Duran Navarro, the brother-in-law of Silvia Duran. In
addition, the House Select :ommittee on Assassinations

has been unable to confirm :he allegation that Lee Harvey

-Oswald travelled while in Mexico City with-"two beatnik-

looking boys." A large par: of the Committee's attempts

to investigate these issues has met with frustration.

D. Oscar Contreras Lirtigue

On March 16, 1967, B. J. Ruyle, the American Consul
in Tampico, reported to the American Embassy that.he had

spoken to a reporter who allegedly had met Lee Harvey Oswald

in 1963. 1019/ The reporter, stressing that he had only

a fleeting contact with Oswild, had claimed to have known

only about Lee Harvey Oswali's desire to travel to Cuba
and the Embassy's unwillingiess to grant him a visa. 1020/
Wien B. J. Ruyle asked. the “eporter for permission to.
cabie the story to the American Embassy, the reporter.

declined, stating tnat he feired losing his job. 1921/

Subsequent to the assassina:ion, the report er had told

his editor adout nis contact with: tee Harvey Oswald, who
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had advised him not to report it. 1022/ The reporter
granted B. J. Ruyle permiss on to cable the story to
the American Embassy when Ruyle promised that it would

be handled with the Stricte:t confidence. 1023/ Ruyle
wrote that he thought the reporter was genuinely con-
cerned about his job. 1024/

A letter from B. J. RuyTe to the State Department
dated May 11, 1967 provided additional details of the
reporter's story. 1025/ The reporter alleged that he .
and some fellow students hat met Lee Harvey Oswald. as
they exited the Cineclub at ‘the Escuela de Filosofia

(School of Philosophy) at tie National Autonomous Univer-
sity of Mexico. 1026/ Oswaid told the group that he had

‘gone to the National Autonomous University of Mexico
looking for pro-Castro Students who might help him per-
Suade the Cuban Embassy to jrant him a visa. 1027/

' Oswald claimed that he was From California and was a mem-
ber of a pro-Castro group 11 New Orleans. 1028/ Oswald
remained with the students he rest of that day. and even-

-ing, as well as the followiig day. 1029/ The revorter
described Oswale as a stranje and introverted individual

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‘The State. Department forwarded a copy of Ruyle's

letter to the Central Intel: igence Agency. 1031/ On
June 14, 1967, CIA Headquar:ers sent the Mexico City Sta-
tion a copy of Ruyle's letter to Bowles. 1032/ ' CIA
Headquarters considered Ruy e's report. "the first piece

of substantive info about Oswald's sojourn in Mexico"

since the assassination. 1033/ Consequently, Headquarters _

‘cabled that though it. under :tood the source's reluctance
to become involved "the fac: remains that this info
cannot continue to be withheld or concealed." 1034/
Headquarters instructed the Mexico city Station to eli-
cit the identity of the sou-ce from Ruyle. 1035/ In '
addition, Headquarters askei the Mexico City Station to
bear in mind, while interviewing Ruyle’s source, that

Lee Harvey Oswald was a homosexual. 1036/ The final
sentence of the dispatch, "‘t is our hope that the facts
obtained through these inte -views will help to confirm
that several of Garrison's illegations about involvement
of anti-Castro Cubans, the “TA, etc. are false," 1037/
explained the Central Intelligence Agency's motives for
pursuing the story.

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Headquarters that a station officer had gone to Tampico

where he had interviewed Ruvle's source, Oscar Contreras. 1038/

The cable reported that Con:reras was a reporter for
El Sol 1039/ | . in Tampico; was circa

thirty years old; married, with three children; studied

law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM) from 1960 to 1964; b>Tonged to a pro-Castro group
at UNAM; was persecuted by :he Mexican police for this
affiliation and moved to Tampico to escape the persecu-

tion 1040/.

Contreras told the Mexico city Station official
that he and four other individuals To4i/ had met Oswald
as they exited a roundtable Jiscussion held at the School

of Philosophy at UNAM. 1042? Contreras stated that Oswald

had made inquiries on the UVAM campus about pro-Cuban

groups and had been directei to his group. 1043/ Con-

treras reported that though the group initially mistrusted

Oswald fearing he was a "CIA provocation,”. they allowed
Oswald to remain with them that day. and night and part

of the following day. 1044/ Contreras noted that Oswaic
never mentioned assassination but kept emphasizing that

he had to get to Cuba, 1045/ In addition, Oswald had

exhibited no homosexuat tenjencies while he was with the

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On July 4, | 1967, Healquarters cabled the Mexico

City Station that Contreras story should: be explored

to the fullest even though he might have fabricated it. 1047/
- Headquarters suggested that the FBI handle the story. 1048/

The following day, July 5, 967, the Mexico City Station

cabled that it preferred turning Contreras' case over to

the Mexican authorities and to the F.B.I. 1049/ The
same day, the Chief of Stat-on informed the Legat of. Con-

treras' story, but asked hin not to take any action with-

out first consulting the: Me ico City Station. 1050/

On July 10, 1967, Jeremy K.° Benedum ("JKB") wrote

a memo delineating the results of a Mexican government
review. of Oscar Contreras' file. 1051/ According to a

memo, a lone Oscar Contreras appeared in the UNAM Taw

school records, Oscar Contreras Lartigue, born 2/14/39

in Ciudad Victoria, Tamauligas. 1052/ The memo also re-

ported that a newspaper article appearing in "Excelsior"
listed an Oscar. Contreras as a signer of a protest for

the Bloque Estudiantil Revclucionario 1053/ which nad

‘been formed mid-196!. 1984, The memo Speculat ed that.

Contreras ‘probably signed “ne aratest as a. Frent man to

protect the real leaders of the group. 1056/ The Maxico
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city Station cabled the infurmation to Headquarters the
following day, June 11, 196. 1056/
The Committee has de:ermined that the Central In-
telligence Agency's main in-erest in Oscar Contreras
was "to confirm that severa | of Garrison’ Ss allegations
about. involvement of anti-C.istro Cubans, the CIA, etc.
are false." 1057/ After-tue. CIA Mexico City Station
official's interview with Contreras 1058/ revealed |
nothing that could.be useful to the agency, it decided
to allow the FBI to follow :he story through. 1059/
Nonetheless, the: Agency's Maxico City Station inter-
viewed the key witness, reviewed pertinent files and
records about the witness i1 the Mexican government's
possession, and reported ali the information to Head-

quarters expeditiously.

VII. Analysis of ise Harvey Oswald's Activities in

Mexico City:

A. in reduction.

After ihe Warren Semeission pubdiished its renert
two very important atregatiors related to lee Harvey Is-

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wald's activities in Yexfcas City came to the attention of

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Garro de Paz reported that she had “geen ‘Lee Harvey Oswald,

accompanied by two other mer, at a party at the home of
‘Ruben Duran Navarro, the brother-in-law of Silvia Ouran. 1060/
In 1967, Oscar Contreras Lartigue reported: that he met
Lee Harvey Oswald on the canpus of the National Autono-
= mous University of Mexico. 1061/ .
In addition, the test imony of ‘the Warren Commission’ Ss
primary witness related to Mexico City, Silvia Tirado
Duran, has been called into question by the critics:
throughout the years. 1062/ Some of the information
that is inconsistent with Ms. Duran's original story-- ~
that Oswald visited the Consulate on two occasions which
_ were the only times she saw him--was available at the
time of the Warren Commissicn's inquiry although it was
ignored. 1663/ Some of the information has developed

after the publication of the Warren Report. 1064/

The Garro and Contreras allegations, in- conjunction
with the inconsistencies cf Ms. Duran's story raise three ma-

jor questions: (1) did Lee Harvey Oswaid or an imposter:

visit the Cuben Consulate ir Mexico City?; (2) other:

than nis visits to the Cubar Consulate, what were Lee Har-

vey Osward's activities. in Nexice City?; and, (2) was
' Lee Harvay Gsweld travelliae« sione in Mexico?” These
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wald was not traveling alon:, did oneof his companions
impersonate him at the Cubay Consulate? Nonetheless,
each of the. three questions will be dealt with in separate
sections below. |
| In an attempt to ansver these questions the House
Select Committee on Assassinations has: 1) ‘interviewed
Mexican 1065/— and Cuban ci:izens 1066/ who could have
knowledge of Oswald's visit:; to the Cuban Consulate;
2) interviewed Mexican citiens 1067/ who could have know-
ledge of ‘Oswald' $ activitie: and associations in Mexico.
City; 3) conducted an exten:ive review of the files of
the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation that perta n to Oswald's sojourn in.

Mexico City. 1068/

B. Did Lee Harvey Oswald or an Imposter Contact
the Cuban and Sov et Consulates in Mexico City?
Lee Harvey Oswald hinself probably visited the Cuban
Consulate at least once since his acplication for a Cuban
instransit visa bears his $s: gnature. 1069/ Though the

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applications out of the Consulate to be returned when
completed, 1070/ Silvia Duran stated she was certain that .
Oswald signed the application in her presence. 1071/ Os- , |

wald’ s signature on the Cuban ‘visa application, however,

does ‘not by itself rule out the possibility that someone . . |

impersonated Oswald in contacts with the Cuban and: Soviet

Embassies. . {
An analysis of the t2lephone conversations which

the CIA s Mexico City Station intercepted by tapping the.

Soviet Consulate and the Soviet Military Attache! s tele- |

phone reveals that someone, later identified. by the CIA as Oswald,

‘visited the Cuban Consulate at least two times and the ~
Soviet Consulate at least tiree times. 1072/ On Septem-

os , ber 27, 1963, at 4:05 p.m. silvia Duran called the Soviet f
Consulate. In this conversation she referred to an Ameri-

can seeking an intransit visa to Cuba. 1073/ The substan-

tive information given indi. rates ‘that she was discussing 7
Oswald. 1074/ At this time the individual. using Oswald's.
‘name already had been at the Soviet Embassy at least once, {
‘since Siivia recuested the nume of the Soviet Embassy offi-

cial who dealt with the American. 1075/. Silvia also. ~ Ui
stated that the American was, at that time, in the Cuban

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sulate. 1078/

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On September 28, 1963, at 11:51 a.m. Silvia Duran
called the Soviet Consulate. 1079/ She put the American,
later identified as Oswald, on the telephone. 1080/ The
American, who was at the Cusan Consulate at the time,-
said that he had just been at the Soviet Consulate. 1081/

’ The conversation ended with the American stating that he
was returning to the Soviet Consulate. 1082/.

Analysis of Silvia Duran's and Eusebio Azcue's
testimony would tend to indicate that Oswald, or someone
impersonating him, visited the Cuban Consulate at least

“one and possibly two additional times on September 27,
1963. Silvia Duran says that Oswald first visited the
Cuban Consulate at approximately 11:00 a.m. requesting
an intransit visa to Cuba with Russia ‘as the final de-
stination. 1083/ Ms, Dura1.sent Oswald to obtain photo-

graphs that he needed for tie visa application. 1p8 4/

Eusebio Azcue recalls that this visit probably occurred

on the date on the visa application, 9/27/63. 1085/

Ms. Duran also state that Oswald returned at ap-
proximately 1:00 p.m.. with four photographs. 1086/ _Eusebio
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Azcue also stated that the “ndividual later identified
as Oswald returned to the Cuban Consulate about 1:00 p.m.
with the photographs probab y on "the date that appears
on the application, that is to say on the 27th." 1087/.
The Committee believes that there is a possibility that .
the argument between Azcue and the individual occurred
during this visit. 1088/ —

Ms. Duran stated that: Oswald's third and last
visit occurred in the Tate ifternoon after. working hours
on the 27th. 1089/ This visit is confirmed by the CIA's
tap on the Soviet Consulate. 1090/ - ‘

In addition to the a’ leged Oswald visits to the
Consulates, there were other telephonic contacts that may
have been between Oswald, or an imposter, and the Consu-

lates. 1091/ = Several deta: Ts about Oswald’ s visits to
the Cuban Consulate, and telephonic’ contacts with both
‘Consulates suggest that the individual involved may not
have been Oswald... - .
Silvia Duran's description of Oswald did not re-
‘semble Oswald's true physicé i appearance. 1092/ This
description, which appeared early inthe reporting of in-
formation obtained from Ms. Ouran was deleted from subse-

_quent reports and was not at an mentioned in the Warren

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Azcue's description of Oswald was similar to Silvia
Duran's, but more detailed. 1094/ Perhaps the most re-
markable thing about these descriptions is their simi-
larity to Elena Garra de Paz' description of one of Qs-
wald's alleged companions. 1095/ |
Another. possible incication that an imposter may

also have visited the Consulate is the 9/28/63 intercepted
conversation. 1096/ Silvia Duran adamantly denies that Oswald
or any other American visited the Cuban Consulate on Saturday,
September 28, 1963. 1097/ In light of the CIA intercept
of that date, Ms. Duran has either Tied to the Committee

or the individual who visited the Consulate on September
28 was not Oswald. 1098/ Ms. Duran, in light of the in-
consistencies detailed in Sections Vv, C and VI, A above,
May not be the most credible witness, but there are indi-
‘cations that she was truthtul when she stated that Oswaid

_ did not visit “the Consulate on September 28. The Septem-
ber 28, 1963 conversation was linked to Oswald because
of the marginal notations made by the CIA transt2tor on

the transcript. 1999/ The translator noted on the trans-

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Russian." 1100/ - On Octobe~ 1, 1963, a man called the
Soviet Consulate and identified himself as "Lee Os-
wald." 1101/ This man also stated that he had been at
the Consulate on Saturday, :he 28th. 1102/ The transla-
tor noted that this was the same man who had called the
Consulate "a day or so ago" and had spoken in broken

Russian. 1103/ | From this iiformation, and possibly a

"- voice comparison 1104/, the 9/28 caller.was ‘identified
as Oswald. 1105/ The probl om with assuming that the
caller on 9/28 and 10/1 was Oswald is that Oswald spoke
fluent’ Russian. 1106/  Gran:ed, Ms. Duran's denial. of

‘the Saturday visit and the arofictency of the caller's
Russian is not sufficient evidence to conclude that the
person who visited the Cuba. Consulate on Saturday and

- who called the Soviet Consulate on Saturday and on Octo-

_ ber Ist was'an imposter. Yet the information is suffi-
cient to question the assumition that it was Oswald,
especially in Vight of Azcu:'s and Quran's descriptions

_ and Elena Garre de Paz' allagation.

The Committee notes :he possibstity, but does not

conclude, that the. missing producticn. from the pulse.

camera and the LILYRIC base has Scmething to do with tha -

possibility that someone impersonated Oswald in Mexico.

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Three calls that alse occurred early on September
27, 1963 may have been by an imposter. At approximately
10:30 a.m. a man called the Soviet Military Attache
looking for a-visa to Odessi and was referred to the So-
viet Consulate. 1108/° At 11:37 a.m. a man called the
Soviet Consulate and asked ‘or a visa to Odessa. 1109/
He was told to call back at 11:00. 1110/ At 1:25 p.m.
a man called the Soviet Embussy and was told the Consul
would return between 4:00 p om. and 5:00 p.m. that day.

While only the calle-s' requests for a visa to

- Russia 1112/ (Odessa) conne-:t these calls to Oswald,

“the HSCA believes that they do fit. logically into-a time

sequence created by what is known from testimony and the
electronic intercepts. about his actions on that day.
For example, the following iS a reasonable possible

chronology of Oswald's actions on 9/27/63 based on analy-

‘sis of the available eviden:e. Oswald probably arrived .

in Mexico around 10:00 a.m. on September 27. 1113/ By
16:30 Oswald had time to arrive at the Hotel del Comercio
and to place a cail to the soviet Military Attache wno

referred him to the Consul. Vir4ay. Tre military attacne

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During the 10:37 a.m. call to the Consulate, the caller

“learned that he could conta:t the Soviet Consul at 11:00
a.m. 1116/ This done, Oswald then visited the Cuban
Consulate where he arrived tround 11:00. a.m., on his way
to the Soviet Consulate. - Tiis meeting lasted only approxi- |
mately fifteen minutes. 1113/ Oswald was then sent to

. obtain photographs and to tie Russian Embassy to get the
necessary Russian visa. 111}/- Oswald returned to the.
Cuban Consulate around 1:00 p.m. 1120/| At this point he
‘had his encounter with Azcu2 and completed his application.
Oswald realized at this poiit that he would have problems
obtained the visas. li22/) \fter this visit to the Cuban

| Consulate, which lasted approximately. fifteen minutes 1123/
Oswald tried to contact the Soviet Consul whom Oswald
‘claimed had assured him thas he would have no problems
obtaining a visa. 1124’ Heice, the 1:25 call. 1125/

During this conversation Osvald learned that the Consul

Oswald returned to the Cuba, Consulate at 4:60 and Silvia
Duran calied the Soe tiet Consul on his behalf. lizzy
Hence, the 4:05 and 2:76 J. fie ‘CaLTS involving Duran. 1128/
Sut there is 2 Broo] 2m with attributing the firs:

three calls o “Guat iT, 1965 to Oswata. . The conversa-
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detailed calls were not made by Oswald or Oswald could
speak Spanish. |
There is not enough evidence firmly to conclude
that some one did impersonate Oswald in Mexico. On the
other hand; the evidence is of such a nature that the

possibility cannot be dismissed.

C. What were Lee Harvey Oswald's Activities in
Mexico City? ,

When the Warren Commission wrote about Lee Harvey
Oswald's activities in Mexico City, it concluded: .

The Commission undertook an intensive investi-
gation to determine Oswald's purpose and.acti-
vittes on this journey, with specific reference
to reports that Oswald was an agent of the Cuban.
or Soviet Governments. As a result of its investi-
- gation, the Commission betieves that it has been
able to reconstruct and explain most of Oswald's
actions during this time.

By Saturday, September 23, 1982,

Gswaid nad failed to obtain visas at both

the Cuban anc Soviet Embassies. From Sunday,
September 29, through Wecnesday morning, Octo-
ber Z, when he left Mexico City on a bus >ound
for the tinited States, Oswald scent considerable
time maxing his travel arrangements, sightseeing
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learn whether anything had happened on his.
visa application. 1131/

Subsequent to the Warren Commission’ s Report,

the allegations of Elena Garro 1132/ and Oscar Contreras

Lartigue 1133/ came to the attention ‘of the United

States investigative agencies. The main allegation of

both these people, that they met Lee Harvey Oswald

in Mexico City, remains to this day without direct corro-
boration. Yet the Committee feéls that it cannot dis-

- miss these allegations without giving them any considera-
tion. . , ;

The testimony of Silvia Duran and the Cuban Consu-
late Officials Azcue and Mirabal place Oswald's last
contact with the Cuban Embassy on Friday evening, Septem-

ber 27, 1963. 1134/ The transcripts from the CIA's wire-
taps on the Soviet Consulate place Oswald's last visits

to the Soviet and Cuban Corsulates on Saturday morning,

September 28, 1963. 1135/ Oswald's last telephonic

. contact with the- Soviet Corsulate came on Tuesday, Octo-

ber 1, 1963. }336/ Cswald’s activities on the days be-
tween September 28 and Octcser 1 are not clearly recorded..

The Warren Commission spect lated that. he spent most

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It is entirely possible that Oswald did spend some of

his time during this weekend sightseeing and making

his travel arrangements. It is also entirely possible

that, after his failure to obtain his visas on Saturday,

September 28, that Oswald did not give up completely

and did attend a party where he would have come into

2 contact with the Cuban Consular officials and, later,

; sought help from pro-Castro students.

It is entirely possible that Ruben Duran had a

“twist party” on September 30, or October 1 1138/ as

. Elena Garro has claimed. Ruben, Horacio, Lydia and Silvia
Duran all admitted that they frequently had twist par-
‘ties in 1963. 1139/ Only Silvia Duran recalled Elena

. Garro attending any of the "twist parties" at the Durans'

home. 1140/ She recalled Elena and Elena's daughter,

Elenita, attending one twist party at Ruben's: home in

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1963. . 4i/ The other Durans adamantly denied that Lee

Harvey Oswald had attended a twist party at one of their

homes. 1342/-
Many of the detaiis of Elena Garro’s allegations

have n¢t been, or cannet be, corroborated. for exampie,

s aliegation that sone of the people who had been

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at the party were taken to Veracruz under the protection

of Governor Lopez Arias 1143/ has not been verified. Ruben

Duran denied that he had ever discussed the assassination

with Elena Garro. 1144/ Eusebio Azcue denied that he
had discussed President Kennedy with Emilio Carballido
ata party at the Durans' home as alleged by Elena
Garro. 1145/ The Committee has not been able to verify
whether or not guards were posted outside of Elena's
home in 1963 as she claims.

But other details (of Elena's story are very credi-
ble. Perhaps the most striking is the suggestion that
Oswald’ s relationship with Silvia Duran was more exten- -

sive than just the business contacts in ‘the Cuban Consu-

. late. 1146/ Another detail is the manner in which Elena's -

allegations were handled, and the manner in which this
Committee's attempts to investigate those allegations
have been frustatred. 1147/. |

In 1965 Elena. Garro reported that Silvia Duran

“had been Oswald's mistress while he was in Mexico City. 1148/

In 1967 this report was confirmed by a CIA agent who
talked to Silvia Duran, 1149/ The CIA Station did not

consider the information significant and toid the agent

“to end his contact with Ms. Duran, 1150/ !f that informa-

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tion is accurate, then that Silvia invited Oswald. to

a party would not have been surprising. Silvia Duran

admitted that the Mexican police had questioned her on
this point but denied that she had had an affair with
Oswald. 1151/ Ms. Duran denied’ having any extra- marital

affairs while she was married to. Horacio Duran. 1182/

This denial is not. consistent with evidence of her reputa-

. tion at the Cuban Consulate. A CIA penetration agent

there reported to his case officer that all that would

have to be done to recruit Silvia Duran, whom he referred
to by using the Spanish word for whore, would be to get

a blond blue-eyed American into bed with her. 1153/

There is also CIA information that indicates that Silvia

Duran had an affair with a Cuban Ambassador to Mexico
in the early 1960's. 1154/ - :

The HSCA attempted to interview the CIA penetra-
tion agent about Ms. Duran. 1155/ An interview with the
“agent was also desired $0 as to-attempt to verify whether -

Elena Garro had created a cisturbance at the Cuban Embassy.
on November 23, 1963. 1156; The Committee's attempts
to interview this agent were frustrated. 1157/ -——
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October 13, 1966. 1158/ Ms. Garro claimed that she had

been held there by Manuel Calvillo whom she believed
worked for the Mexican Ministry of Government. 1159/
In 1963, Mr. Calvillo was a1 unwitting asset of the Central
Intelligence Agency. 1160/ Ms. Garro claimed that she
told Mr. Calvillo her story on November 23, 1963. 1161/
Yet the CIA Mexico City Station did. not receive a report
from Calvillo on this matter. until November 24, ‘1964, the
| Same day that Elena first told her story ‘to American of.
ficials. 1162/ For these rzasons it was felt that
Manuel Calvillo could well .e a key to determining the
veracity of Ms. Garro's story. The Committee's attempt -
to interview Mr. Calvillo were also frustrated.

‘There: is also circumstantial corroboration of Ms,
Garro's allegations regardiig June Cobb Sharp. For exam-
ple, Ms. Cobb was indeed a STA agent and she did file |
the first report of Ms. Gar-o's story, 1164/ It should

be noted that this first revort was accurate in its detail
in that Ms. Garro's story remained essentially the same
in subsequent repetitions. Ms. Garro claimed that she

kicked Ms. Cobb out of her iouse. 1165/ There is a nota-

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access to Ms. Garro. 1166/ The Committee attempted to
obtain an interview with Ms. Cobb, but was once again
frustated. 1167/ .

Reviewing the manner in which the CIA Mexico City
Station and the Legal Attache's office in Mexico City
handled .Ms. Garro' Ss allegations reveals that, at: best,
‘her allegations were handled in an irresponsible manner
because they were dismissed after a superficial. investi-
gation. The first report that came. to the CIA was mis- |
filed and forgotten. 1168/ The Legat, after talking to
“Elena, dismissed her story after interviewing one person
whom she said may have been at the party. 1169/ The
manner in which the official American community handled
Charles Thomas' reporting is detailed in Section VI, C,
11, above. Mr: Thomas speculated in 1969 about why Ms.
Garro's story had been largely ignored by the American
officials in Mexico:

It would appear that whereas the FBI has
discounted the Elena Garro. allegations,
the CIA is still considerable disturbed

by them. The CIA may not have pressed for
further investigation, however, for a nun-

‘ber of reasons: 1) considering the sensi-

tive overlap and subtle competition tetween
two intelligence collecting agencies, it

had to yield to the FBI's clear furtsdic-
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and delicate relaticnship between the CIA
Station Chief. and the former Minister of
Interior--President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz;
and 4)-some of the Feople appearing in
the Elena Garro scenario may well be agents
of the CIA. ._ Under the circumstances it
is unlikely that any further investiga-
tion of this matter will ever take place
unless it is ordered by a high official
in Washington. 1170/ ;

The Committee attempted to locate Elena Garro.
Although the Committee esta lished telephonic contact
with Ms. Garro, the Committee was totally frustrated
in this aspect of its investigation, but yet believes
that there is a possibility that Lee Harvey Oswald did
attend a twist party at the home of Ruben Duran.

The Committee also considers it possible that

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National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad

Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, hereinafter UNAM) as claimed

by Oscar Contreras Lartigue. 1172/ Silvia Duran admitted

that she had told Oswald of two ways in which: he could

get .a Cuban visa: 1) he could get an intransit visa by
first obtaining a visa to-another communis: country such

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It is possible that after Oswald's attempts to obtain
a visa by the first method were frustrated on Saturday,
September 28, that he made one final effort to locate |
someone trusted by the Cuban Consulate to vouch for
him.
There is no direct evidence about how Oswald
could have learned of the rro-Castro. group at UNAM.
There is a possibility that Ernesto Leffeld Miller,
a friend of the Durans who borrowed Horacio's car often
took Lee Harvey Oswald to the campus of the National
Autonomous University. On the days when Lee Harvey 0s-
wald allegedly visited the Consulate, Mr. Miller did also.
It is possible that Silvia Duran asked him to escort
Oswald to the campus. Mrs Miller denied having ever
met Oswald. VI74A/) Oscar (Contreras says that Oswald
first contacted him as he was leaving a round-table dis-
- cussion at the schooT of. pLilosphy. V174/ (It is known
that, in 1963, the Derans vere close friends with the
Chairman of the Philosocny Department at UNAM, Ricarde
‘Guerra, who held seminars on kant, Hegel and: Marx in the

- Durans'home. 'i75/ it is possible, if Silvia Duran hac-

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that she referred Oswald to one of Guerra's Marxist
seminars in his search: for help. Unfortunately,
Contreras, does not .name wto headed the round table dis-
cussion at which he met Oswald. 1176/ Silvia Duran
denied that she referred (swald to anyone for help. DI}
Ricardo Guerra is present y the Mexican Ambassador to
East Germany and was not ivailable to the Committee

for an interview. On botl-of the Committee's trips to
Mexico, the Mexican Government told the Committee that
Mr. Contreras would be made available for an interview.
The interview never occurred. 1178/ Although the Con-
-mittee's attempt to inves:igate Mr. Contreras allegat-
tion met largely with fru;tration, the allegation can

not be dismissed.

O. Was Lee Harvey Q:wald alone while he ‘cravelled

The ‘Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Os-

, wald travelled alone whil: he was in Mexicc. 1i79/
Atl of the witnesses, wit i the exception of Elena Garro
| Re de Paz who stated that Os sald was accompanied by two

“beatnik looking boys” J130/ at Ruben curan’s sarty,

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the Elena Garro allegation properly, the Committee does -_
not believe that it can readily dismiss Ms. Garro's . |

allegation that Oswald had a companion in Mexico in light

of: 1) the corroboration of details of Ms. Garro's story; 1181/
2) the possibility that soneone impersonated Oswald in-
Mexico 1182/ and 3) the siniliarity in the description of
Oswald by Ms. Duran and Mr. Azcue and the description of

Oswald's companion by Ms. Carro. 1183/

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Appendix 1: HSCA Procedural Write-up Cuba Trip 1

Select Committee memsers Chairman Louis Stokes

‘and Congressman-Christopher Dodd, accompanied by G..

Robert Blakey, Gary Cornwell and Ed Lopez of the Select

"Committee staff arrived in Cuba at 3:30 p.m., March 30,

1978. They were.met and escorted through Cuban Customs .
by the Mayor of Havana, Honorable Oscar Fernandez Mell,
the Minister of Justice, Dr. Armando Torres Santrayll,
Sefior Buergo, Ricardo Escartin. and: the Cuban government
translator, Juanita Vera. At approximately 7:30 p.m.
Serior Mell escorted the Select Committee staff to a
restaurant ‘in Old Havana. The following day Congressman
Richardson Preyer arrived in Cuba at 7:00 a.m.

At 9:30 a.m. on March 31, 1978 the Select Committee
representatives met with Ficardo Escartin, Senén Buergo
and Captain Felipe Villa cf the Ministry of the.Interior.
Tne Cuban Government gave the members and Committee its
official reply to the Committee's questionnaire, given
to the Cuban government prior to the Committee's trio
to Cuba. .

At 3:00 p.m., the Setect Committee. met Again with

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Ricardo Escartin, Senen Buergo, Felipe Villa and Juanita

Vera. During this session, the two major areas of dis-
cussion were Lee Harvey Oswald's visa application and

the dates of Jack Ruby's \isits to Cuba in 1959. 1184/

At 7:30 p.m. the House Select Committee on Assassinations
staff dined with the Minister of Justice, Armando Torres
Santrayll. _

“At 9:00 a.m. on April 1, 1978, the Select Committee
staff again met with the same Cuban officials for a
third session. _ Santo Trai ficante was the major. area of
discussion. 1185/ At noor, Committee members and
staff representatives met with Cuba's Minister of Educa-
tion, Honorable Jose Ramor Fernandez, who gave a pre-
sentation on the improvement in quality of Cuban educa-—

tion since the Cuban Revo ution.

- Eusebio Azcue was interviewed bythe Committee staff re-
presentative. Azcue was questioned extensively about
Oswald's aileged trip to Hexico City, Oswald's. alleged
visits to the Cuban Consu ate, and Senor Azcue's alleged:

argument with Lea Harvey \swald. 1186/

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At 7:30 p.m., April 1, 1978, Messers. Escartin.
and Hernandez accompanied the House Select Committee
staff for dinner and show. to the Tropicana Club-which,
prior to the Revolution, vas operated by organized
crime. ‘The Tropicana Clut is presently run by the
Cuban government. | |

At 11:00 a.m. on April 2, 1978, the. Committee
_ staff again met with Senen Buergo, Ricardo Escartin,
Felipe Villa, Aramis Guet'errez and Juanita Vera. Santo
‘Trafficante, Jack Ruby and. Mexico City were the major
areas of discussion. 1187, This session terminated at
1:00 p.m. At 4:50 p.m., «he morning’ s meeting resumed.
During the afternoon sess'on, the major aregf of dis-
cussion was the alleged pro- Castro involvement in the
assassination. 1188/
At 9:15 a.m, April 3, 1978, the Committee staff —
met with ‘the Cuban officials for a final work session.

During this session, the ntelligence agencies and

general questions derived from the questionnaire which.

the Committee had provide to the Cuban government

were the major areas of d‘scussion. 1189/ During the.

session, the Committee stiff and Cuban officials also

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exchanged listings of pending material which might be
covered during a subsequent trip to Cuba by HSCA repre-
_ Sentatives and Congressmen. 1190/ .

At 6:00 p.m. the Comnittee staff met with Presi-
dent Fidel Castro Ruz who. assured the Committee that
neither he nor his government had any involvement in the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The House Select Committee on Assassinations staff
departed Havana, Cuba at 10:00 a.m., April 4, 1978,
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Appendix 2: HSCA Procedura. Write-up Mexico Trip

House Select Committue on Assassinations Staffers
Gary Cornwell, Dan Hardway . Edwin Lopez and Harold Leap
arrived at the Mexico City airport at 8:30 p.m., May
30, 1978. (A1] times are lexico City times, unless
otherwise specified. ) The were met and escorted through
Customs by David Patton, an employee of the United
States Embassy...

The following morniny, May 31, 1978 the: HSCA

representatives met with U.S. Embassy Political Officer

Richard Howard concerning procedure. Mr. Howard Sche-
duled a meeting at 27:15 am. With the Chief of the CIA.
Station in Mexico’ City. This meeting was preliminary

in nature and concerned procedures regarding arrangement

_ of the interviews of ex-CI.\ employees in Mexico.

At 12:00 noon, the HiCA representatives and Richard

‘Howard met representatives of the Government of Mexico.

The Mexican representative: were: 1). Dr. Jesus Yanes,

Advisor to the Attorney Geieral's Executive orf icer;
2) Fernando Baeza, Chief Administrative Officar for tne

Attorney General; and 3) Commandate Florentine. Ventura,

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informed the staff members at this meeting that they. had

located Silvia Duran, Horacio Duran, Ruben Duran. and

Pedro Gutierrez Valencia 1°92/ and that each person

was willing to be interviewed by the HSCA representatives.
Procedure for conduct of ‘the interviews was also dis-
cussed at this meeting. .

The Mexican government decided that the initial

interview would be an informal contact- with the witnesses

in which the Committee's oljectives would be described.

The witnesses' statements would be formalized at a Jater,

‘taped interview. The Mexican officials informed the

HSCA staff members that they had been unable to locate
Oscar Contreras, 1193/ Eluna Garro de Paz, and Elenita
Garro de Paz. 1194/ The Mexican Government had not had
contact with. the Garros since 1968. The Mexicans said
that they were trying to Incate the Garros through ©

the Foreign Ministry since Elena’ $ ex-husband, Octavio
Paz, had once been an impo-tant person in that ministry.
The Mexicans asked that we determine the name of the

Mexican Government contact during 1964 with the Warren

Commission so that they co11d locate their records in

the Archives.
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interviews with witnesses. The preliminary interviews

were conducted by Gary Coriwel]. HSCA staff members
Dan Hardway, Edwin Lopez aid Harold Leap were present
during Cornwell's questioning. The Mexican Government
was represented by Dr. Jesus Yanes, Commandante Floren-
tino Ventura, and Jesus Meixueiro Kanty, second in com-
mand to Ventura. Pedro Gutierrez Valencia was inter-
viewed at 2:30 p.m. Ruben Duran was interviewed at

5:00-p.m. Horacio Duran wis interviewed at 5:30 p.m.

At 9: 30 ‘a.m. on June 1, 1978, the WSCA staff re-
presentatives met with the Mexican police representatives.
The HSCA staff requested 1) the records of the company

that employed Gutierrez Valencia in 1963; press clippings

‘of the Mexican newspaper coverage of Oswald and Silvia

Duran (attached); 3) once again, an interview with Oscar

- Contreras; 4) individual fijes on Elena Garro de Paz

‘and Silvia Duran; 5) evidence related to Silvia Duran's

Silvia Duran was interviewed at 6:15 p.m. ; ; .
assertion that Oswald was a+ the Cuban Embassy on one f
day only; 6) an interview with Seba Garro de Guerrero

Galvan; 1195/ 7) an interview with Eunice Odio; 1136/
9) an interview with Emijic Carballido; 1197/ ana
10) an interview witn Vic ton Rico Galan, foes the -430

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HSCA also asked to be Showr the Cuban Consulate.

The Mexican representatives informed the HSCA

staff that Victor Rico Galin had, at one time, been ..

arrested on political charces but that he was subse-

quently pardoned by either Diaz Ordaz or Luis Eche-

yarria. 1199/— The Mexicans said that they were search-.
ing for all files and newspaper articles requested

by the HSCA.

The Mexican officials also offered their obser-

vations orally on the prel‘minary interviews conducted

the previous day. They po‘nted out that they found it

strange that Silvia had to'd Oswald he could not travel

while. in Cuba. They wondered what Duran was trying to

tell Oswald and whether she thought that Oswald had

’ some objective in going to Cuba other than that ascribed
by the popular version. They alse considered the manner

in which Silvia obtained erptoyment at the Cuban’ Consu-

late unusual. ' Generally they noted that Silvia and

her brothers seemed to have almost Programmed responses

and a defensive demeanor. They pointed out, nowever,
that all the Durans had been very incerestad in talking
-to us. En their opinion, ‘uben Duran was the most

credt bie of those intervieved: oy the HSCA the previous

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At this point, a Mexican official who had been

checking the computer reco-ds informed us that Victor

Rico Galan had died.

HSCA staff members p-ovided the Mexican authori-

ties with the names of the Mexican officials who had

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been involved in the inves:igation in 1963.

HSCA staff members m:t again with the Mexican po-

Sa

lice authorities at 10:00 i.m. on June 2, 1978. At
this time, the Mexican police provided the copies of the ‘newspaper

clippings on the assassination of John F. Kennedy from the

STA,

Excelsior. HSCA staff memoers asked if the. Mexicans
could persuade the newspap:rs to reveal the sources
of their stories about Oswild and Silvia Duran. The

Mexican officials' response was negative. The Mexican

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officials informed the HSC.\ staff members that most of

the data we wanted from th: files was in their Security

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the HSCA explained that they were the Mexican equivaient °
of the F3I and that the Se:urity Service was the Mexican £
equivatent of the CAG hence there was the usual cureau- Eg
cratic protiem involved ir abtataing access to tne Se- af
curity Sarvice's files. Tie Mexicans int formed the HSCA &

» Yepresentazives that Emit i> Garbatiids had been located,

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. that Deba Garro could not va haste and that there
was no record of anyone naned Eunice Odio. HSCA repre-
- sentatives told the Mexicar officials that Odio, who
was either Costa Rican or Cuatemalan, had been the
mistress of Emilio Carballido. The assassination
and the reaction of the Me>ican people to it was
discussed. _
At 1:00 Pp. m., HSCA staff members conducted an
interview at the United Stetes Embassy in connection
with the CIA aspects of the Mexico. City investigation.
| At 2:30, Gary Cornwe’ discussed problems with
the Chief of the Mexico Cily CIA Station. He requested
that the COS cable Headquaiters regarding restrictions
placed onthe HSCA staff-in Mexico. |

At 6:09 p.m., the HSCA staff members, accompanied
by Jesus Meixuerio Kanty and his assistant, -Honorio|

" Escondon, met with the ass stant. chief of the Mexican

Security Service Nazar. Mr. Nazar gave an oral resume
of the interviews which Mexican officials conaucted in

1963 of Silvia, Horatio and Ruben Suran and Bercy Serratos.

quested befcre ne could cousider releasing them. He

suggested that we secure S:atements admissible in United

ot Wf983 Sonheoio ik Am

Mr. Nazar saic that the Tites had toe be formaily re- ;

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States courts from the witiesses whom we wished to

interview. Mr. Nazar suggested that our best investi-

gatory avenue would be to concentrate on Oswald’ s inter-

rogation after his arrest on November 22nd. Mr. Nazar

‘had a very low opinion of ‘lena Garro de Paz' credibil-
‘ity. He felt that she con*used fact and fiction.

June 3 and 4, 1978, were spent on ClA-related

aspects of the Mexico City. investigation. Two inter-

views were conducted. - All interviews, with the excep-

later transcribed.

At 11:00 a.m. on Jun2 5, 1978, the HSCA staff.
interviewed Horacio Duran for the record. 1200/ -At
‘4:00 p.m., HSCA staff memb:2r Edwin Lopez and Mexican
| officials Honorio Escondon and Dr. Alfenso Orozco

Gutierrez interviewed-Pedr) Gutierrez Valencia for

the record. 1201/ At 5:00 p.m.. HSCA staff members in-
terviewed Lynn Duran, aka -ydia Duran, for the record. 1202/

On June 6, 1978 at 11:00 a.m., the HSCA staff in-

tion of interviews with CIA personnel, were taped and f

terviawed Ruben Duran for tne record. 1295 (20c/ 0 At 1:00 p.m.,
the staff representatives net with Commandate Ventura.
The staff representatives agreed to Surpiy the Mexicans

with questions for two witnesses, Jscar Contreras and

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Ernesto Lehfeld Miller, who could not then be inter-
viewed. 1204/ Commandate Ventura authorized Honorio
Escondon to interview Oscar Contreras Lartigue. and

Ernesto Lehfeld Miller. At 5:00 p.m., the wife of

Ruben Duran, Betty Serratos, 1205/ was interviewed for

the record. At 5:45 p.m., Silvia Duran was interviewed
for the record. 1206/ =

_ The HSCA staff representatives lett Mexico City
at 8:30 a.m. on June 7, 1978, arriving in Washington,

D.C. at 5:30 p.m., Washington time.

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House Select Committee staffers Edwin Juan Lopez
and Harold Leap traveled tc Mexico City on August 7,
1978. The staff members were met by David T. Patton,

a State Department official, at the Mexican airport

at 10:15 p.m. Mr. Patton ‘then checked the staffers into
Room 1754 at the Maria Isatel Hotel. oo Mr.
Patton informed the staff members that Larry Sternfield
CIA Chief of Station in Me> ico City, wished to see us
at 8:30 a. m. the following morning.

On Tuesday, August 8. 1978, Committee staffers
met with Larry Sternfield. He informed the staffers
that the two individuals the Committee wished to inter-
views Dariel Flores, 1207/ aka Luis Aparicio, and Ramon

Alvarez Duran, 1208/were now available.

- At 9:30 a.m., August 8, 1978, Committee staff mem-

bers interviewed Danny Flores. 1209/ The interview

ended at approximately 10: 5 a.m.
Committee staff members returned to Mr. Sternfield
office. Mr. Starnfi ald staied that it appeared that “the

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and Noe W. Palomares. 1211; Sternfield asked the |
staff members to whom they. wished to speak. The Commit-
tee staff members explainec that they would like to

interview LICHANT 1, 1212/ LICOOKIE 1,:1213/ LITAMIL 7, 1214/

| LITAMIL 9, 1215/ and LIRING 3, 1216/ Mr. Sternfield
then stated that it appeared that the House Select

Committee on Assassinations had already asked the Mexi-

cans to locate the individials listed above.

Mr. Sternfield Statec that the HSCA's interview

with Ramon Alvarez Duran wis considered "highly sensi-
tive." He explained that three rooms at a nearby hotel
would be used. In one room, Ramon. Alvarez Duran. would.
sit, Committee staff members would sit in a second room
and two CIA personnel officers would insure that the
equipment worked: properly -n a third room. Mr. Stern-
field then phoned-Mr. Niles Gooding, who had been sent
to the Mexico City Station from Headquarters to arrange
the procedures for the interviews. Mr. Gooding ex-
piained that in 1977 Stans<ield Turner fad created a
new ocsition at Headquarters to insure that important

sensitive meetings were within the guidelines: previously

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gence Agency had been unde~ greater Congressional scrutiny ©
the past two years. Therefore, Director Turner, in
order to demonstrate the Ajency's good faith, had en-

' gaged a retired Army officer to act as liaison at

sensitive interviews by Coigressional representatives.

Mr. Gooding then explained that the HSCA staff would be

escorted by two CIA personiel to the interview with

Ramon Alvarez Durant.

At 10:55 a.m., August 8, 1978, Committee staff

. members interviewed Ramon Alvarez Durant. 1217/
¢ At 12:30 -p.m., Committee staff members telephoned
Captain Fernandez Ventura jutierrez. -His secretary
explained that Mr. Ventura was not’ in the office, but
that she would: have him call us when he returned. At

6:30 p.m., since Mr. Ventura had not yet returned the

staffer’ s call, they again called his office. His se-

cretary apologized for Mr. Ventura and explained that

he had not yet returned to th e office and she assured us that

Mr.Ventura would telephone upon his return. At 9:15 p.m.,
or. Jesus Yanez, the Assistant to the official mayor,

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telephoned the staff members explaining that Mr. Ventura

was very busy on an important assignment and asked us”
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to visit the Police Station known as the Procuraduria

General at 11:00 a.m. the following morning.

At 10:15 a.m., August 9, 1978, Committee staff
members met with State Department Official Richard
Howard to alert him that the Committee would request
the Mexican officials to make Silvia Duran available

in Washington for an HSCA hearing.. Mr. Howard explained

that once we had permission from the Mexican government, .

the State Department would insure that she was in
Washington when necessary.
At i: 00 a.m., August 9, 1978, “Committee ‘Staff

members met with Dr. Jesus Yanes and Ciprianio Martinez

‘“Novoa. Mr. Yanes told. Committee staff members that

Ciprianio Martinez Nova, the Mexican agent in charge,
would try to aid us in all our interviews. Mr. Martinez
then briefed the Committee staff members on their up-to~
date progress: .

Oscar Contreras Lartigue had been located and pre-
interviewed by Mr. Martinez in Tampico, Mexico. The
Committee would fly to Tampico on Friday, August 1,
1978 at 7;35 a.m. to interview him.

Noe W. Palomares hac been located and could be

interviewed during the afternoon of Thursday, August 15,-

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1978 at his office, Cerrad: de la Presa 4. His phone number,
595-0891, was made availabie to the Committee. |
June Cobb Sharp received a tourist permit, number
72781, on June 27, 1947. She entered Mexico through
Nuevo Lardo, Texas. ‘She requested but was denied permission
by the Mexican government 20 represent the magazine, Modern
Mexico. On June'21, 1948, she received a courtesy permit,
number 25556. She disappeired in 1954 and never returned
' to Mexico. . .
The Committee staffe-s did not tell the Mexicans that
the House Select Committee on Assassinations had evidence
"from review of June Cobb's 201 file that she was in. Mexico
in the Sixties. oe
Eunice Odio Infante, a Costa Rican, recetved a
three-month tourist permit from the Mexican government
on February 9, 1964. She emained in Mexico, illegally
residing at Nacas-45-a, un:il 1972. She applied to write

for the Excelsior magazine on many different occasions,

but was rejected every tim:, In 1972, Ms. Odio -married

‘a Comminist painter, Rudol 7o Sanabria Gonzalez and moved

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to Rio Neba-16 Apartment 40. On May 24, 1972, Ms. Odto
was found dead in her bath:ub. The official presiding

at her autopsy concluded that Ms: Odio had poisoned

herself.

Emilio Carballido Foutanes was in Carcas, Venezuela,

on vacation and scheduled :o return to Mexico in early

September. His address is Constituyentes 207. His phone
number is 515-8345. fo

Consuelo Esperon' s (. ITAMIL 7) -personnel record. in
Mexico could not be located. When the Mexican officials

inquired about her at the cuban Embassy in Mexico City

prior to the Committee's trip, no one at the office
remembered that she had worked there. Committee staff
members were told that Esperon was probably dead. No basis
was given for the Mexican government's conclusion.

Carlos Jurado J. Delmar (LIRING 3) was born in Cuba

on November 3, 1927. He entered Mexico July 1, 1965 and
taught Graphics and Art at U.N.A.N. until January 1, 1968

when he disappeared. The Mexican officials assumed that he

returned to Cuba.

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General Jesus Jose C’ark Flores 1218/ died in the
early 1970's. ;

Ernesto Lehfeld Miller, 1219/ Academic Coordinator
at the School of Interior lesign, had not yet been located.

Luis Alberue Suoto (L.ITAMIL. 9) lives at Michelet #7, .
Apartment #301, Colonia Ancura, Mexico City. His phone
number is 545-9947. -The liendlady at his apartment explained
to the Mexican officials that Mr. Alberue had left town

| hurriedly on Monday, August. 7, 1978. Mr. Martinez, wishing

to know when he returned, fiad placed a piece of scotch tape

that he checked it every four hours and would notify us if
Alberue returned before we left.

Manuel Calvillo (LICHANT 1) did not live at Cauhtemoc’

877-5 as-the Committee had. stated. The landlady for the
past twenty-five years at the apartments told Mr. Martinez
that Manuel Calvillo had never resided there. Committee

_ staff members explained thit Calvillo went by a pen name

which would be forwarded tc the Mexican officials the

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“When Committee staff members inquired whether Ms.
Silvia Tirado Bazan could cestify at an HSCA hearing,
the Mexican officials stated that they would have an
answer for the staffers by Friday morning. The Mexican
officials explained. that tiey would have to speak to her
to. insure that she was wil ing to travel to. Washington.

On Thursday, August /0, 1978, at 11:00 a.m.- the
Committee staff members me: with Dr. Jesus Yanez,. Agent
Ciprianio Martinez Novoa, vaptain Florentino Ventura

Gutierrez and Attorney Gen2ral Licensiado, Manuel Calvillo’ s
“pen name" was given to th: Mexicans who stated that they
would check it with the laidlady at his alleged apartment
building. | |

Committee staffers r2turned to their hotel room with
Agent Ciprianio Martinez Novoa after the meeting. Agent
Martinez attempted without success to telephone Oscar
Contreras Lartigue to info-m him of our visit: At 3:30 p.m,
Agent Martinez finally reached Mr. Contreras’ child who
informed him that Mr. Cont-eras was not in Tampico. He

had traveled to Mexico Citys for a Partido Republicans

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Institucional convention. When Agent Martinez asked the child

if he knew where his fathe*> was staying in Mexico City,

he responded that he did Mot. Agent Martinez explained
“to the child that he would call ata later ‘time to speak

to his mother.

Agent Martinez telepioned Noe W. Palomares at 4:00

p.m. and arrange an interview. for 6: 30 p.m. that evening.

Mr. Martinez asked Committ ze staff members to meet him at
his office at the Procuraduria General at 6:00 p.m.
At 6:00 p.m., August 10, 1978, Committee staff members

met Agent Ciprianio Martinez at the Procuraduria General.

Martinez then drove the HS7A representatives to Mr. Palomares’

office. At 6:30 p.m., Comnittee staff members interviewed

Noe 4. Palomares. 1270/

Following the interview, Agent Martinez returned to

the Maria Isabel Hotel with Committee staff members. He

attempted to. reach Mrs. Contreras telephonically at Tampico

twice without success. At 9:45 p.m., he finally contacted

her. Mrs. Contreras told. Agent Martinez that Mr. Oscar

Contreras hac totc her that ha wouid try to get a room

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at either the Hotel Regis tr Hote} San Francisco. Mrs.
Contreras explained that since there were a few conven-
tions scheduled in Mexico City that weekend she could
not assure that he would be at either hotel. Mrs. Contreras
told Agent Martinez that ste would notify him if her:
husband should call. a .
Mr. Martinez called toth hotels and inquired whether
‘Oscar Contreras Lartigue wes registered. He was not
registered at either; they were completely booked up.
Mr. Martinez attempted to reach by telephone Silvia
Tirade Byazan at ther home to ask her whether she would be
willing to travel to Washirgton- to testify ata -HSCA hearing
“cand to ask if she knew where Mr. Ernesto Lehfeld Miller
could be located. She was not at home, however. ° _
Agent Martinez expla: ned that he would attempt. to
| locate Oscar Contreras Lariigue at the hotel where the
Partido Republicano Institucional (Institutional Republican

Party) was holding its convention early the following morning;

after which he would meet the staff members at 9:30 a.m. at

their hotel room.

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At 9:45:a.m., August 11, 1978, Agent Martinez met
‘Committee staffers at thei: hotel room and explained that
he was unable to locate Mr. Contreras Lartigue at the
convention. Mr. Martinez chen left to check the where-
abouts of Mr. Alberue Suot) and Silvia Tirado Bazan.
at 12:30 p.m., Augist 11, 1978, Agent Martinez
returned to the Committee itaff members' hotel room. He
telephoned Mrs. Contreras .in Tampico who stated that her
“husband had not. telephoned her since she had last spoken.
to Agent Martinez. At 1:5) p.m., another agent, Honorio .
Escondon, telephoned Agent Martinez at the Committee staffers’
hotel room to inform him tiat Luis Alberue Suoto must be
back in town because the s:otch tape placed at the base of
his entranceway door was n) longer in Place. AT 1:55 p.m,
Agent Martinez telephoned -_uis Alberue Suvoto. During the
-phone conversation, Alberu2 denied that he had worked at .
the Cuban Embassy in the Sixties, Stated that he knew nothing
about the assassination, aid declined the Committee staff
members’ request to interview him.

At 2:00 p.m., August 11, 1978, Agent Martinez telephoned

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Silvia Duran. | Agent Martinez then gave. the telephone to
Committee staffer Lopez. hr. Lopez asked Ms. Tirado
‘whether she would be. willirg to testify sometime in September
at a Committee hearing dn bashington; ‘she answered affirma-
tively. She-stated that. September 13th, 14th and 15th
would not be "good days" because the Mexican Revolution
celebration would be takinc place and she was a planner and
participant. When Mr. Lopez asked Ms. Tirado if she- knew
Mr. Ernesto, Lehfeld Miller's phone number, she stated that
she did not, but she state: that if we telephoned her
husband Horatio at either, !16-0398 or 515-8621, he would
be able to help us. .

At 2:15 p.m., Commit:: ee staffer Lopez telephoned
Horatio Duran, who have hin Ernesto Lehfeld Miller's office
phone number, 548-4839. A. 2:20 p.m., Lopez telephoned ©

_Mr. Miller and arranged a tieeting for 9:00 p.m. that

evening.
At 2:30 p.m., Agent ltartinez telephoned Captain Ventura
to report on-his progress, pertaining to his work with the:

HSCA. when Martinez told ‘entura that he had located Alberue,

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Ventura asked Martinez if ne was alone. When Agent Martinez

lied and stated that he wai alone, Ventura told him that

he should under no circums:ances allow us to interview

Alberue. When Agent Martiiez completed his phone call,

he said, "I don't understaid why nobody wants you to talk

to him." . _—

| At 9:00 p.m., August 11, 1978, Committee staffers

_ interviewed Ernesto Lehfeld Miller. 1221/

. At 11:15 a.m., August 12, 1978, Committee staffer
Lopez called Luis Alberue Suoto at his home. When Mr. Lopez
identified himself, Mr. Aloerue immediately stated that
he knew nothing. He further stated that he never worked

for the Cuban Embassy. Whan Lopez explained to him that
‘employees at the Cuban Embassy had stated that he had ‘been

employed there, Mr. Suoto hung up. Mr. Alberue's voice
quivered throughout the short talk. -

At 11:45 a.m., Silvia Tirado called Lopez and stated
that she had thought all night about travelling to Washington.
She said she had seen a report in-the newspapers in which

Azcue had stated that the man who visited the Cuban Consulate.

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in 1963 was not Lee Harvey Oswald. She stated that Azcue
had only seen. Oswald once while she had seen Oswald at
least three times.
; Ms. Duran further stated

‘that if she testified in Washington and the Committee

concluded that she was lying she would be crucified when
| she returned to Mexico. “Wr. Lopez reassured her and explained

that. when he returned to hashington he. would send her a long
. letter explaining procedures.

At 12:05 p.m., Agent Martinez met the Committee staff.
members at the airport. te stated that Contreras and Calvillo
had not been located. The Committee staffers gave Martinez |
a list of questions to asl Oscar Contreras Lartigue. Agent
Martinez stated that he would mail the results of the interview
to Lopez at the Committee offices in Washington, -The
Committee never received iny interview reports from the
Mexican government. 7 |

The Committee staff members left Mexico City at a: 55 e. m.
and arrived at Washington s Dulles. Airport at 10:35 p.m.

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“On August 25, 1978, Congressman Richardson Preyer ~
‘and HSCA staff members G. Robert Blakey and Edwin Juan’
Lopez Soto traveled to Cuba from Miami. at 8:25 a.m.-on an
Mir-Taxi Service charter plane. The Committee representa-
tives arrived in Cuba at 10:15 a.m. They were met by the
Minister of Justice, ArmSndo Torres Santrayl1l; Washington
Consul Ricardo Escarting American Department official,
Senen Buergo; and translator, Nellie Ruiz de Zarade. The
Committee representatives were escorted to their suite,

room number 2003, at the Hotel Riviera at 11:00 a.m.

At 12:15 p.m. , the Committee representatives met
with Ricardo Escartin, Felipe Villa, Senen Buergo and
translators Juanita Vera and Nellie Ruiz de larade. “Also
present were two Cuban stenographers. Senen Buergo, the
spokesperson, welcomed the Committee representatives to
Cuba and thanked the Committee for its correspondence,
‘Mr. Buergo apologized on behalf of the Cuban government

for the postponement of a previously scheduied trip of

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May 24th and 25th, 1978. ar. Buergo stressed that in
his opinion there was a coispiracy to link Cuba to the
assassination of John F. Kennedy. At that point, he
handed four files. to Congr2ssman Richardson: Preyer. The
files consisted of: a) material concerning Santo Trafficante;
b) a letter dated 25 November 1963 from Hernandez ‘Armas
“(Mexican Ambassador in 1962 to Raul Roa (Minister of Foreign
Relations in 1963); c) the results of the Cuban government’ s
research into mis- - information linking: the Cuban Government
.to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; and d@)
the report of the Investicative Committee of the International
Tribunal of the Eleventh Festival reporting on the ‘defamation
campaign to link Cuba to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Mr. Buergo stated that both Eusebio Azcue Lopez and
Alfredo Mirabal Diaz woulc that day be made available for
interviews. Mr. Buergo siated that Nilo Otero 1222/ would
be made available for inte rview the following day, 26 August
1978. Mr. Buergo stated “hat. Rogelio Rodriguez 1223/ was.
“presently stationed in We:t Germany. Buergo stated that

Ricardo Escartin previous y interviewed Mr. Rodriguez ana

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was told by Rodriguez that he had had no contact with Lee
Harvey Oswald. Mr. Buergo stated that if the Committee
still desired to interview Rodriguez, he would be made .
available to the:.Committee. Mr. Buergo stated that an
interview with Rolando Cubela Secades 1224/ would be

arranged.

in interviewing Orestes Gu Ilermo Ruiz Perez. 1225/ Mr.
‘Buergo stated that the Cuban government had no record of

a citizen named Griselle Rubio. 1226/ Mr. Buergo inquired
whether the Committee representatives were interested in
watching the videotaped statements of James Wilcott 1227/
and Phillip Agee 1228/ at che Tribunal. 1229/ Congressman

_want to view the Wilcott aid Agee videotaped statements.
: Mr. Buergo stated thit our schedule included dinner
with the Minister of Justi :e at 8:00 p.m. on 25 August 1978,
_ fishing on 27 August 1978 'Sunday), and a farewell dinner
on 28 August 1978.

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making both the documents and witnesses available to the
Select Committee. . |
Professor Blakey steted that the Committee was no
longer interested in interviewing Rolando Cubela. Mr.
' Blakey stated that Griselle Rubio had been found in Miami
and interviewed by a Committee investigator. Mr. Blakey
stated that the Committee wanted to interview Oreste Guillermo
Ruiz Perez for two reasons: He worked at the Cuban Embassy
in September 1963 when Osvald allegedly visited the Cuban
‘compound in Mexico City; end, he is married to the cousin
of a counter-revolutionary, Antonio Veciana Blanch. - Mr.
Blakey stated that Rogelic Rodriguez need not be interviewed.
Captain Felipe Villa stated that the Cuban government,
relying on the seriousness and honesty of the Committee’ s
work, tnought that the Conmittee should have knowledge of
Cuebela' S$ statements. Mr. Villa stated that the Committee
still needed to provide the Cuban government with the
_ following: a) a workable formula on counter-revolutionaries
that could be used by the Cuban government to aid the

Committee in its investigation cf such organizations;

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b) copies of Lee Harvey Oswald's signatures ‘that the
Cuban government could use to perform its own hand-
writing comparison test; and c) £. Howard Hunt's aliases;

Mr. Blakey stated that examples of Lee Harvey Oswald's
handwriting would be forthzoming. Mr. Blakey stated that
the Committee had not yet developed a formula for identifying
counter-revolutionary grouss active against the Cuban.
government in 1963 or a method for providing E.. Howard Hunt's
aliases. Mr. Blakey stressed that both these areas would
be discussed in the Committee's final report.

At 1:00 p.m. the first work session ended.

At 3:15 p.m. House S2lect Committee on Assassinations
representatives interviewed Juan Nilo Otero in Room 2003 of
the Hotel Riviera. Present were Congressman Richardson
Preyer, G. Robert Blakey, idwin Juan Lopez Soto, Senen.
Buergo, Ricardo Escartin, saptain Felipe: Villa, translator
Juanita Vera and two stenojraphers. 1230/ The interview
ended at 5:15 p.m. _ .

At 8:00 ‘D.m. the Comnittee's representatives met

Senen Buergo and transtato* Nellie Ruiz de Zarade at the

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Hotel Riviera's lobby.: The group was chauffered to the
Bodeguita del Medio--one of Cuba's most famous restaurants--
where they dined with the dinister of Justice, Armando
Torres Santrayll. .

At 10:15 a.m., 26 Aujust 1978, Select Committee .

_ representatives interviewed Alfredo Mirabal Diaz 1231/ in
Room 2003 at the Hotel Riviera. Present were Congressman
"Richardson Preyer, 6. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez Soto,

Senen Buergo, Captain Felize Villa, Ricardo Escartin,
translators Juanita Vera aid Nellie Ruiz de Zarade and
two Stenographers. The interview ended at 12:45 p.m.

After the Mirabal interview Mr. Buergo asked whether -
the HSCA representatives wished to “interview Jose Verdacia
Verdacia, 1232/ the Warden of Trescornia while Santos Traffi-
cante was a detainee. Whe Congressman Richardson Preyer

stated that the Committee vould indeed be interested in
‘interviewing Jose Verdacia Verdacia, Mr. Buergo stated that:

he would be available for in interview at 3:00 p.m.

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dose Verdacia Verdacia in Room 2003 of the Hotel Riviera.

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G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juana Lopez Soto, Richardo Escartin,

"Vera. 1234/ Because there were no stenographers present

‘the Cuban representatives tape-recorded the interview. The

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Present were Congressman Richardson Preyer, G. Robert
Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez Soto, Senen Buergo, Captain

Felipe Villa, Ricardo Escartin, Arais Gutierrez, trans-

stenographers. 1233/ The interview ended at 4:20 p.m.
“> On Sunday morning, 27 August 1978, the Cuban Government's
representatives took the Select Committee representatives
to. Veradero Beach. 7
At 8:35 p.m. Select committee representatives interviewed
Orestes Guillermo Ruiz Per2z at the Hotel Internacional at

Veradero Beach. Present were Congressman Richardson Preyer,

Captain Felipe Villa, Senen Buergo and translator Juanita

interview ended-at 9:20 p.n.
-On 28 August 1978, at 10:25 a.m., HSCA representatives

interviewed Rolando Cubela Secades in Room 2003 at the Hotel

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Riviera. Present were Conjressman Richardson Preyer,
G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juin Lopez Soto, Ricardo Escartin,
‘Captain Felipe Villa, Sene1 Buergo, translator Juanita
‘Vera and Nellie Ruiz de Za-ade, and two stenographers.
Also present was Antonio Hernandez who escorted Mr. Cuebla
from prison to the Hotel. 1235/ The interview ended at
11:85 pom. | |
At 3: 25 p.m., HSCA representatives. interviewed Maria:
Teresa Proenza y Proenza in Room 2003 of the Hotel Riviera.
Present were Congressman Richardson Preyer, G. Robert Blakey,
Edwin Juan Lopez Soto, Richardo Escartin, Captain Felipe. |
Villa, Senen Buergo, Antonio Hernandez, translator Nellie
Ruiz de Zarade and two stenographers: 1236/ | The interview

ended at 4:15 p.m.

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On 29 August 1978, at 9:30 a.m., the HSCA representatives
met the Cuban delegation for a final work session in Room 2003
of the Hotel Riviera. Present were Congressman Richardson
Preyer, G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez, Ricardo Escartin,
Senen Buergo, Captain Felipe Villa, translators Juanita Vera

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The Cuban delegation spokesperson, Senen Buergo,
explained that Mr. Manuel Piniero 1238/ was out of.the .
country and therefore an interview could not be arranged.
Mr. Buergo explained that the Cuban delegation had located
Luisa Calderon Carralero 1239/ but because she was iW an
interview could not be arranged. - Mr. Buergo suggested
that the HSCA forward questions to the Cuban Government.
Ms. Calderon's answers would then be forwarded to the -.

Committee.

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Mr. Buergo explained that Raul Roa 1240/ had a very
busy schedule. Mr. Roa felt that he could not add any more 6
information to what Nilo Otero had | already provided and declined j
the interview. | .

Material handed to the HSCA representatives at this
time included:

aja list of persons whom the Cuban delegation a

believed to have had close relations with Santo .

Trafficante;

b) photographs depicting what the Cuban gcvernment

bejieved to be a Centra! Intelligence Agency

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photographic surv2illance base targeted ©
against the Cuban Consulate and Embassy in
Mexico City during 1963;

c) an essay entitled "Imperialism's Political,
Economic, and Military Organizations and
Agencies of Crime, such as the CIA" and

d) an article entitled "Finally We Have Eliminated
“That Pinto in the White House, said Bob, When

He Heard About JFK's Assassination"
The final work session ended at 11:00 a.m.
mittee's- representatives to the airport. At the airport
they were WE farewell by the Minister ‘of Justice, Armando

Torres Santrayl1,. Senen Byergo, Juanita Vera and Nellie

Ruiz de Zarade.

Consul, Ricardo Escartin, departed. Cuba.

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Appendix 5: Biography: - Elena Garro De Paz

Elena Garro de Paz wis born of Spanish parents in
Puebla, Mexico on December 11, 1917. (ANI information in
‘this section culled.from Biography Data form prepared by

Charles Thomas.) Ms~. Garr) attended the National Autonomous

University of Mexico and liter did graduate work at Berkley
in California and at the Uriversity of Paris. In 1963,
Elena had Tong been marriei to Octavio Paz, a career 7
diplomat who is also one of Mexico's finest poets and leading
intellectuals. When Octavio was named Mexican Ambassador
to India, the couple separated by mutual consent. Elena's
daughter, also named Elena, has always resided with her

mother.

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Since Elena spent seventeen years of her early life

in Europe she had a ratner un-Mexican objectivity about her

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‘native land and had a reputation for being one of its more

articulate detractors. At the same time, Elena was considered

mK,

emotionally committed to many aspects of Mexican life and

made an important contribution to its ar tistic devetopment

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In the 1960's Elena »ecame a significant writer.

ee

Allende, Andaise por las Rumas, Parada Empresa, and £1 Viaje

are plays that have had apureciative audiences in Europe,

Hogar Solido, El Rey Mago, La Senora en ‘su Balcon, Ventura

where they were translated into German, as well as in Mexico.
‘Ms. Garro's short stories are collected in a voTume called

La Semana de Colores. The Literacy Supplement of the London

Times has called her novel, Los Recuerdos de Porenir

Pao
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splendid success." Critic: have said of her: "For Elena
Garro, there is no frontie: between reality. and fantasy;

_ in any case, the latter is a second reality--perhaps more |

sd intense--to which one may penetrate without passport. or

forewarning, thanks to the effectiveness of a literature
fired with passion, flavor and life." Many people who
knew Elena have asserted that the frontier between reality
and fantasy is also difficult for her to distinguish in
real life. (Biography Pate Fore on Elena Garra de Paza
prepared by Charles Thomas.)

Ms. Garro, fer many sears, was an active worker in.

Ca alan aR aa

the Confederacion Nactiona’ Camsasina (CNC), the agrarian

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arm of the Partido Reformi:.ta (PRI). Because Ms. Garro

was a tireless propagandis: and agitator on behalf of

the poorer Mexican peasant:., she was on close personal

terms with and enjoyed the respect of peasant leaders

from all over the country. (Ibid.)
Elena was considered a witty, urbane and opinionated

-woman with an unflagging sanse of humor. Her forthright

opinions and sharp wit tenied on occasion to ruffle feathers

in Mexico, but her importait social, Jiteracy, and political

connections rendered her fairly immune from serious cunter-

attack until 1968. Then, 4s. Garro was forced to flee the

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country with her daughter, Elenita and her sister, Deba

, Guerrero de Galvan, in the midst of the student strikes.

The House Select Committee on Assassinations has been unable
te determine the exact reason Ms. Garro had for fleeing

Mexico.

Before her disappearance from Mexico, Elena was well.

disposed toward the United States and had been friendly

“with Embassy officers. Her broad range of significant

dersonal friends, tne views of many important to the

fea,

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"useful ‘Embassy target” isa person ‘deemed important |
enough becausé of acquaint inces to merit ‘frequent
contact, either witting or unwitting, with American
Embassy officials.) —

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SIX: GLOSSARY O}* TERMS USED IN REPORT.

’ Agent: A person who know..ngly works for the CIA on a
contract or job bisis. ; .

Asset: A.general term fo: persons, not officers, used _

by the CIA.. Fo. example, both agents and sources
are assets. An asset is anyone used in an
operation or project, whether or not (that is
aware that he i; being used. nat

Case officer: See Operat ions officer.
Coverage: Surveillance.

Cryptonym: A séries of l:tters used by the CIA to iden-

tify someone or something while protecting that
person or things true identity. All.the letters

‘ain a cryptonym ire capitalized. The first two. >

letters are assigned by the subject matter or
local to which the person or thing belongs. The
rest of. the cryotonym is randomly assigned. See
LIMITED for exanple. The "LI" designates that
the project was located in Mexico. .2) The planet
on which Superman was born. ue

- Chronological file: A folder in which material is stored
. in chronological order. Usually used for produc-

tion or communizations: type material.

Electronic intercept base: House, apartment, or building

j "that, contains eyuipment used in intercepting and

tapéing telephone conversations subject to
electronic surveillance.

Freedom of Information Act.

CIA cryptcnym for photographic project aimed at
the Soviet Embassy in Mexicc City.

CIA crvotonym, ore-1964,. for surveillance operation
aimed ac the Cubans in Mexico City.

cIA cryptcnym assianed' to one of the three bases

_which previded ghotograshic surveillance of the

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LIMERICK: CIA cryptonym ineaning "Soviet".

LIMITED: CIA cryptonym o: one of three bases: which provided
; photographic su-sveillance of the Soviet Embassy
in Mexico City.

LIONION: CIA cryptonym for photographic surveillance.
operations aimei at the Cuban diplomatic com-
pound in Mexico City after July, 1964.

Listening post: See eleczronic intercept base.

Logs: A list of photojraphs taken and the times they
were taken prepared by agents in the photographic
base houses.

Monitors: Mexican Army officers who worked in the elec-
tronic intercept base listening to conversations
on telephone lines subject to wiretaps and
summarizing those conversations they deemed
to be important.

Officer: CIA career employee.

operat en. A subpart of a project. Often used interchangably
: with "project". =

Operations officer: CIA career employee; term usually
used in Connection with an employee with respon-

sibility for a particular operation or project.

Penetration acent: An agent who works inside a target
institution. For example, LITAMEL/9 worked for
the CIA in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.

P file: Designation assigned to a personality file in the
CIA's Mexico City Station. A file fcr the
retention of irformation in written form arranged
‘according to irdividual's names.

Photographic base: House, apartment, or building used for
j housing cr photograchic surveillance equipment and
_the ascents who operate ite, Always located near
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Pitched: Made an effort to recruit as an agent, asset
or source.

Production: Materials or “information generated by an
Operation - or project.

Project: A group or set of operations by the CIA aimed
ata specific person, institution or thing,
with the aim of collecting information, influ-
encing behavior, etc.

Project files: A folder for the retention of information
generated by, or relating to a project. Gene-
rally broken down into four sub-files: Devel-
opment and plans, production; support; and
‘Operations.

Psuedonym: False name “assigned to ‘CIA officers for use
in communicaticn channels.

Pulse camera: A camera with a shutter that is automat~
ically tripped by a triggering device activated
by changes.in light density.

oem women. CHa. wea. ee, wean, a.

_ Resuma: Daily summary cf important conversations on
: surveilled telephone lines prepared by monitors .
in the listening post. | |

Selected Out: Phrase used when a Foreign Service officer
1s retired after having been in one grade for the
maximum period of time and is not considered

qualified for fromotion to a higher grade.
Source: A person who either wittingly or unwittingly
. provides information to the CIA.
Station: A CIA over-seas “installation. It is the
Headquarters fcr operations in a particular
country and is ussually located in the United
States Embassy in the capital of the country
in which it is situated. > |
Subject file: Folder for the retention of infcrmation in.
. written forn azranged py the subject matter of
; the information af at m & - ep
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. ‘project, operation or pitch is aimed.

VLS- -2 trigger device: A nachine which automatically

triggers the shitter of a camera when it
senses a change in light density. Used along
with a camera’ arda Spotting scope in a "pulse
camera.

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APPENDIX SEVEN: LISTING 0° CIA DOCUMENTS CITED.

Annual Fitness Report on’ .inn Goodpasture, 1/14/64.

Article, with note in-marjin, in Oswald P file, by -
Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott, "CIA Withheld
Vital Intelligence fron Warren Commission,"
10/21/64.

Blind Memorandum entitled "Delay in sending the first
cable about Oswald. "

7 Blind memorandum re: Lee liarvey Oswald/Silvia Tirado
de Duran, Source: LI/4. 11/26/63.

CIA Component Report on w retap operations, "ZRSOLO
and ZRJOINT: Two Telephone Tap Operations,” Paul
Levister.

DIR 74830, 10/10/63. (A "DIR" is a cable from Head-
quarters to a field stition. In this report the
field station is alway:: Mexico City.)

DIR 84886, 11/23/63.-

DIR 84888, 11/23/63.
DIR 84916, 11/23/63.
DIR 85371, 11/28/63. .
DIR 87770, 12/9/63, with ittached note.

DIR 88680, 12/13/63. .

DIR 90466, 12/21/63.

DIR 16823, 7/4/67.

Draft of letter from Win ‘cott to John Barron, 11/25/79,
Foul Foe, The, by Winston Scott writing as Ian Maxwell.

HMMA 4300, 3/12/86. (An HMMAY Vs a dispatch from
Mexico city to Headquarters.

HMMA 14793, 4/8/60.
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HMMA 21845, 7/30/63.
HMMA 22005, 8/23/63.
HMMA 22135, 9/13/63.
HMMA 22267, 10/8/63.
HMMA 22307, 10/18/63.
HMMA 22433, 11/7/63.
HMMA 22452, 11/7/63.
HMMA 22536, 11/9/63.
| HMMA 22726, 1/16/64.
~~ HMMA 23343, 4/30/64.
een HMMA 26006, 4/30/65.
@ HMMA 26160, 5/21/65.

HMMA 26414, 6/22/65.

HMMA 31303, 2/7/67.

HMMA 32243, 5/27/67.
HMMA 32497, 7/11/67.

-HMMW 12725, 7/8/64. (An “H4MW" fs a dispatch from CIA
Headquarters to Mexico ‘ity.)

HMMW 13645, 5/13/65.
HMMW 15557, 6/74/67.
HMMW 15422, 5/15/67. (Mexico City Cony.)

Inspector Senera!l Resort, °977, Tab 2-2,

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entitled "LIMITED 17 July 63 (J110) to 9 Dec 1963
(3163) from Archives-Jcb # 70.209 Box # 1, LIMITED
Production material.

Log Film 144, 10/1/63. through 10/3/63, in CIA file
entitled "LIMITED 17 July 63 (J110) to 9 Dec 1963
(J163) from Archives-Job # 70.209 Box # 1, LIMITED
Rroduction material.

LIONION Project Renewal Request, ayes.

“Memorandum: entitled "Response to HSCA request of 25 duly,
1978," 8/20/78.

Memorandum for the Record from W. David Slawson re: ‘Trip
to. Mexico City, 4/22/6:.. ;

Memorandum from Chief DDP, PG to Chief of Operations/0DP,
2/3/61.

Memorandum from Chief of II/OPS to Chief of Operations/
DOP, 1/8/60. ; .

Memorandum from Chief/WHD. to COS/Mexico City, 12/30/63.
Memorandum from "JKB" re: Oscar Contreras, 71/10/67.
Memorandum from Shepanek -:0 Scott Breckinri dge, 7/31/78.

Memorandum from Winston Scott to the files re: June
Cobb, 11/25/64.

- Memorandum to crark Ander: on from Winston ‘Scott, 11/27/63,
with seven tachments

Memorandum to DOP from Ch ef/wHD, 1/21/64.

Memorandum to the ~ege! aA’ -tache from the: COS/Mexicn Citys
— 745/57.

Memorandum to the Ambacsa:

from Winston Se
re "Lee Oswald Cantact f

con Scott, 10/ 16/63,
nh tha Soviet embassy."

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MEXI 6453, 10/8/63. (Mex-co copy. A OMEXI" is a cable
from Mexico City. ) ae So

MEXI 6453, 10/9/63. (Heac quarters copy.)
MEXI 6534, 10/15/63.
MEXI 7014, 11/22/63.
MEXI 7023, 11/23/63.
MEXI 7024, 11/23/63.
MEXI 7025, 11/23/63.
MEXI 7029, 11/23/63.
MEXI 7033, 11/23/63.
MEXI 7054, 11/24/63.
MEXI 7101, 11/27/63.
MEXI 7105, 11/27/63.
MEXI 7364, 12/12/63.
MEXI 9332, 5/6/64.
MEXT 9440, 6/19/64.
MEXI 5621, 12/16/55.
MEXI 5741, 12/29/65.
MEXI 1950, 6/29/67:
MEXI 1991, 7/5/67.

Note from Ann Gocdpasture to Mexico City Station Cuban
Secticn, 2/3/86.
Note to Luis Echevarria, 71/23/62.

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re: "Background on Mex: co Station Support Assets
(Coverage of Soviet ani Cuban Embassies) ;"
2/10/77.

Project Renewal Request, 11/65, attachment to HMMA 25141.

Report on Oswald from John Scelso, C/WH/3, to James
Angleton,,. c/cl, 12/24/13. |

Review of Project LIEMPTY. attachment to HMMA 15979
11/18/60.

Review of Project LIEMPTY. attachment to HMMA 17999,
10/31/61. | ;

Review of prodect LIEMPTY attachment to HMMA 20054,
10/18/62

Review. of project LIEMPTY attachment to HMMA 22387,
. 10/25/63

Routing and Record Sheet “or DIR 74830, 10/11/63.
Routing and Record Sheet “or MEXI 7028, 11/23/63.
- Routing and Record Sheet. “or MEXI 7033, 11/23/63.

Teletype from the CIA to «he State Department, FBI and.
Navy, DiR 74678, 10/10, 63.

Transcript from Cuban. Embissy, 9/27/63.

Transcripts from Russian imbassy, 9/27/63, 9/28/63,
. 10/1/63 and 10/3/63.

Undated Draft of 1977 CIA Staff Report, Tab F, "Mexico
71963)" Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies
(1963

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B. Rowtcn meeting with LIPING/3, §/26/67.

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and a year later Ann Go odpasture noted on a newspaper
article that such a com2arison was done. Note also
‘the MEXI 7024 reported shat HQ had all the available
information when in facc all conversations were 4
reported in a later cable, MEXI 7033.

Section III, A,.1, abov2.
Section III; A, 1, above.

Section III, A, 1, above.

Section III, A, 1, above. _ ;

688a/ Note to Luis Echevarria, November 23, 1963, CIA No. 444;
Cable re Oswald-Duran, }EXI 7029, November 23, 1963, CIA
No. 441; Raymond Rocca Chronology WX 7241, Entry 36,
November 23, 1963, CIA So. 635.

91/ See below.

92/ Note written by Winston Scott re phone call with John Scelso,
November 23, 1963; Chronology prepared by Raymond Rocca,
WX 7241, entry 37, November 23, 1963, CIA No. 635.

693/ Ibid. |
694/ Ibid.
695/ Chief of Station phone call to Luis Echevarria, November 23,

1963, CIA No. 440; Flasi1 Cable from Karamessines to

Mexico City Station, November 23, 1963, DIR 84916, CIA No.
403; Chronology of Raymond Rocca, entry 46, November 23,
1962, CIA No. 63€. - . ; .

696/ Blind Menc re Lee Harvey Oswald ard Silvia Duran, November |
—_ 26, 1963, CIA #473. ; : ;

697/ Ibid. 2 _ |

9@8/ Cable from Mexico City Station to Headquarters, November

. 27, 2963, MEXI 7101, CIA data a
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699/ Cable from Mexico City Station to ‘Director, December 12, {
1963, MEXI 7364, CIA No. 557- -558.

700/ Cable Mexico City Station to Headquarters, November. 27,
1963, MEXI 7105, CIA No. 479; Chronology of Raymond |

Rocca, November 27, 1963, entry no. 127, CIA No. 562.
701/ Cable from Headquarters to the Mexico City Station, November 28,
1963, DIR 85371, CIA No. 464; Chronology of Raymond Rocca,
Nov. 28, 1963, WX 7241, entry No. 141, CIA No. 658. |
702/ CIA Cable from Headquarter: to Mexico City Station, . December
21, 1963, DIR 90466, CIA No. 549; Chronology of Raymond _
Rocca, December 21, 1963, Entry No. 268, CIA No. 682. _ |
703/ Ibid. |
704/ Ibid. also see ‘Section vr, B, l.
705/ CE 2120, PP. 37-40. . |

706/ Supra, p. 186.

207/ Supra, p. 187, : | . |
707a/ Supra, Pp. 187. : .

107b/ Supra, p-. 190. . . . |
, 708/ Memorandum for the Record 1e Trip to Mexico City, from
-W. David Slawson, 4/22/6:, pp. 39-40. Last Parenthetical
in. the original, oo ;
709/ Ibid. ; Oo |

7i9/ HSCA Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document #011775,p. 17.

7il/ Letter HSCA-.to Mexican gove-nment, . ', SFK Document #

712/ HSCA interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Doc. #011775, p. 20.
713/ Ibid., p. 19-23. . ; . 7 . : {

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p- 30.
p. 29-30.
p- 30..
p. 29.
p. 45, 31.
Pp. 40.
p- 40-41.
p. 41. oy

op. 42.

p- 43.

p. 42.
p. 43.
p. 43, 51,

p. 48. .

736/ Ibid., p. 51.

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738/ Ibid., p. 96.

739/ Write-up: Wallace B. Rowto1 meeting with LIRING/3, May 26,
1967.- ; ;

740/ Ibid. |
741/ LIRING/3 was a source the “IA rated reliable.
742/ Ibid. . i

743/ Ibid.

744/ Ibid.
745/ Ibid.

746/ LIRING 3's case officer's pseudonym.
747/ Ibid.

748/ Ibid. |

749/ HMMA-32243, 5/27/67.

750/ See Section, VI, -C, below.

_751/ Ww -7241, entry no. 613.
752/ FBI, CIA, State Department

753/ "Pitched" is a term used b:' the CIA to designate an attempt
to recruit an individual. . _ ;

7 4/ HSCA Interview of David Ph:.llips, 8/3/78, p. 8. See also
HSCA Testimony of Ann Goodpasture, 11/20/78, Pp. 63.

755/ HSCA Interview of David Ph:.llips, 8/3/78, p. 8.

736/ Ibid.

757/ Ibid. —
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758/ Memorandum for the Record cn Trip to Mexico City, from -
W. David Slawson, 4/22/64, pp. 22-23. Emphasis added.

759/ HSCA Interview of David Phillips, . 8/3/78, p. 8.

760/ Extremely reliable source.

-761/ HSCA Review of. LITAMIL 9 file.

762/ HSCA Interview of David Phillips, 8/3/78, p. 9.
763/ Ibid. | |

764/ Ibid.

765/ Ibid.
766/ Ibid.
767/ Ibid.

768/ Summary of CIA file review of Silvia Duran.

769/ Personality.

of why there was no "P" file on Silvia Duran, Luisa

Calderon Carralero, Teresa Proenza Proenza, Eusebio Azcue
Lopez, Guillermo Oresta, Ruiz Perez, Gilberto Policarpo
Lopez, Juan Manuel Calvillo Alonso and June Viola Cobb Sharp

The agency responded the following on September ll, 1978:

Station index cards shcw the following information re
201 numbers and "P" nunbers:

1) Silvia Duran (No info re "P" number)

2) Luisa Calderon Czrraiero P-8292 Destroyed

3) Teresa Proenza Proenza’ (No info re "Pp" number)

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5) Guillermo Orestes Ruiz Perez (No info re "P" number)

6) ‘No index card on Gilberto Policarpo Lopez, there
' is an index card on one Gilberto Policarpo Lopez
which does not list any 201 or "P" number.
7) Juan Manuel -Calvillo Alonso (No info re "P" number)

8) June Viola Cobb Sharp P-7381 Destroyed.

.771/ HSCA Interview of Dan Neiscuir, 8/29/78, p. 1.
772/ Ibid.
773/ Ibid., p. 1.

774/ CIA, FBI, State Department.

775/ HSCA Testimony of Barney Bidalgo, £/10/78, p. 16.
776/ Ibid.

777/ Ibid.

- 778/ Ibid.

779/ Warren Commission, p. 302.

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B0/ The U.S.. relations. with Cuba in 1963-1964 were not

very good. * Gee U.&.-Cuban Relations Section.
Also, Azcue “traveled from Mexico to Cuba on November 18,
1963. 7
781/ Letter from HECA to Cuban covernment, ' , JFK Doc.
782/ See Transcript Cuba Trip 1, April 1, 1978..
7

83/ HSCA Interview of Eusebio j.zcue, April 1, 1978, pp. 12-
21, JFK Doc. # 007005. See p. 205

784/ Ibid.

185/ See Cuba procedural write-up trip. 2.

7186/ Letter HSCA to Cuban government, ; ’ JFK Doc. #

787/ Mr. Azcue could not pinpoint . the exact dates of the visit.

788/ HSCA public hearing testimony of Eusebio Azcue Lopez,
9/18/78, PP. 30-31.
789/ ibid. .

‘789-A/ Communist party member sh: Pp ) card, Fair Play For Cuba
membership card, Soviet Union residence card, marriage ©
certificate with the nane of his Russian wife.

789-B/ HSCA Public Hearing: Test: mon Ly of Eusebio Azcue Lopez,
9/18/78, p. S- 30.

789-C/ Ibid., p. 29-30.

789-D/ Ibid., p. 30.

789-E/ Ibid., p. 20.

799-F/ Azcve could not pinrcint the exacr date,

789-G/ HSCA Publis Testinoy of f Tasebic Ascue, 9/18/78, p. 32.

789-E,’ ibid., p. 33.

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> 789-3/ Azcue_ could not pinpoint the time of the phone call.

790/ HSCA Public Hearing Testimeny of Eusebio Azcue Lopez,
9/18/78, Pe 34.

791/ Ibid., p. 35.
292/ 10:00 - 2:00 .
- 793/ HSCA Public Testimony of Eisebio Azcue Lopez, 9/18/78,
Pp. .
194/ Ibid., p. ee oe a -
795/ Ibid. _
796/ Ibid.

797/ Ibid., pp. 50-51. 797a/ AMIUG a CIA Defector, alleged that
‘abel Diaz was a DGt agent.

798/ Mr. Mirabal could not pinpoint the exact dates of Oswald's
.visit but Opined that the: second visit. occurred on
September 27, 1963.

799/ HSCA Public Testimony of A] fredo Mirabal Diaz, 9/18/78,
p- 117.

800/ Ibid.
801/ Ibid., p. 118.

_ 802/ Ibid., p. 120. 802a/ Ibid. p. 199 802b/ Ibid.
803/ WX 7241, P. 94, entry ne. (30; Blind Meno dated 10/5/64.
804, See apvendix 5 for biograpt y

p. 94, entry no. ¢26; Blind meme dated 10/5/64.

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809/ Ibid. _
10/ Ibid. | |
‘B11/ Ibid.
812/ Ibid.

813/ A "witting" asset is the title given to a CIA source |
whose information is being used by the -
CIA. . ‘

814/ CIA No. 580-583, WX 7241, intry #427, p. 92, CIA #719.
15/ Ibid.: circa October 1964. .
816/ Ibid. .

817/ Ibid.

818/ Ibid.:. Also, Winston Scott was the Mexico City Chief in
1964.

819/ CIA No.'s 580-583; WX 7241, Entry #427, p. 42, CIA #719.

820/ WX 7241, p. 94, Entry #430, CIA #721; Blind memo dated.
10/5/64, CIA #576.

821/ Personality.

822/ See WX 7241, p. 94, CIA #721.

823/ WX 7241 p. 87, CIA $714.

824/ CIA 10/12/64 memo, CIA #595; Wx 724), Be 87, CIA #714.

825/ Tichbern was Henry F - Lepe:' ryptonym. .Mr. Lopez was a
witting asset who wrote :ropaganda pieces for the CIA.
After careful review of Lopez' CIA file, the HSCA has
not been able to establish a link from Mr. Lesez to
either Ms. Odie ez Cebb. . .

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826/ The Committee has not been able to determine why the ‘memo
_ was not sent to Headquar -ers.

827/ CIA 10/12/64 Memo, (CIA. #595; WX 7241, p- 87, CIA #714.

828/ The House Select Committee has been unable to determine
the agent's identity sin:e his name does not appear in
any CIA files.

829/ Memo from Winston Scott to the files, re. June Cobb,:11/25/64,
(CIA No. 592-593; WX 7241, p. 88, Entry # 404, CIA #715.

830/ While reviewing LICHANT/1" 5 file the. Committee determined
that the CIA asset's tru: name was Manuel Calvillo
who Elena claimed escort:2d her and her daughter to the
Vermont Hotel for protec:ion the day following JFK's
assassination.

’ 831/ Memo from Winston Scott to ‘the files, re June Cobb Sharp,
11/25/64, CIA Nos. 592-533, WX 7241, p. 88, Entry #404,

CIA No. 715.
832/ Ibid.
833/ Ibid.
834/ HSCA Review of Classified (cIA Documents.

825/ The Legal Attache in 1964 vas Clark Anderson.

$38/ | FEI 105- 825555 Report, Dec:2mber-11, 1964 entitled Lee
‘Harvey Oswald, p. 1. ;

837/ Ibid.

838/ To be checked at FBI. ||. -

‘639/ FBI investigation of Presidunt Kennecy's assassination had
establishec that Lee Harvey Sswald had devarted Mexice ;
City by bus at 8:30 a.m. on October 2, 1963. Elena Insurgente.

840/ FBI 195-825555 Report, Decumber il, 1364 entitied Lee Harvey
. Oswald, ce. dl.

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841/ Ibid., p. 3. ;
842/ Ibid. . °

843/ Ibid. —
844/ Ibid.

845/ Ibid.

846/ Ibid.

847/ Ibid. oe
- 848/ Ibid., p. 4.

849/ Ibid.

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A review of CIA files corr-2borrated that the FBI never
forwarded the informatio. to the CIA.

855/ CIA # 586-587, WxX-7241, En:ry No. 425, p. 91, CIA p. 718.

856/ The Committee has been una>dle to determine who initiated
the discussion re Lee Ha -vey Oswald.

857/ CIA #586-587, Wx-7241, Ent:y No. 425, p. 91, CIA p. 718.

- B53/ Tbid.

829/ Ibid.

e€0/ Ibid, | OO :
_861/ Ibid. i RzAR T a
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./ CIA #586-587, Wx-7241, Ent zy No. 425, CIA p. 718.
/ See Section VI, A, 2a. __ .
/. CIA #586-587, Wx-724- , Ent-zy No. 425, p. 91, CIA p. 718.
65/ ‘Ibid.
/ Ibid.
/ Ibid.
/ Ibid.

/ Ibid.; also see HSCA inves: sigation of Elena, Garro de Paz/-alle-
“gations.

/ CIA No. 586-587, Wx-7242, intry No. 425, p. 91, CIA p. 718.
/ Ibid.

/ The House Select Committee has determined that the Central’
Intelligence Agency received the copy of the Thomas me-
morandum prior to Decemb2r 25, 1965, his next meeting

' with Elena Garro; Also, see below.

74/ CIA-No. 588, note from Staley Watson to Chief of Station.

Ibid. .

76/ Cable from Mexico City to che Director, MEXI 5621,
-. Dec. 16, 1965, CIA No. 584-585. :

72/ Ibid.
‘ Ann Goodpasture.

Cable from Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 5621, -
pec. 16, 1965 CIA Nos. 584-585.

/ Chief of Station in Mexico

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State Department: Letter f::om Charles Thomas to William
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Ibid.
Ibid.

CIA Nos. 580-583, Wx-7241, Entry #427, p. 92, CIA #719.

on November 24, 1964. Aso, see Supra, Pp.
CIA Nos. 580-583, Wx-7241, Entry #427, p. “92, CIA #719; ="<*"
Ibid. —
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Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibia.
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Ibid.
Ibid.
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90 3/ Him: John F.. Kennedy.

904/ CIA Nos. 580- 583; Wx-7241, Entry #427, p. 92.
CIA #719.

905/ Ibid. | |

906/ HSCA Public Testimony of Eisebio Azcue, 9/18/78, p. Bv-8F
907/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry #427, p. 92, CIA #719.

-908/ Ibid. . .

909/ Ibid.
910/ Ibid.
911/ Ibid. . a oo, _

912/ Noe Palomares was the Mexi. zan Minister of Immigration in
1963.

913/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry No. 427, p. 92, CIA #719.

914/ Ibid.

917/ Ibid.

918/ Ibid. ©

919/ Ibid.; Also, for confirmat sOn see Memo from Legat to
Winston Scott, 10/13/66, CIA No. 564; Wx-7242, Entry |
#466, p. 98, CIA #725. |

920/ CIA Nos. 530-583; Wx-7241, Entry No. arp 9 cIA p. 719.

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922/ Ibid.
923/ Ibid.
924/ Ibid.
927/ Ibid.

928/ Victor Rico Galan is dead. The Committee could not versity
Ms. Garro's allegation. —

929/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry No. 427, p. 92, CIA p. 719;
, also, Silvia Duran denied the allegation, (see HSCA Inter-
' view at Silvia Duran, 6,6/78, JFK Document No. 011775,

p.- 81 . Also, see Sec:tion VI, A, 2a.)

930/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry No. 427, p. 92, CIA, p. 719.

931/ FBI Report, 9/30/69, pp. ‘i-4, JFK Doc. No. 011684,

932/ Ibid.

933/ Supra, p. °

934/ FBI Report, 9/36/69, pp. ‘\-4, JFK Doc. #011684.

935/ CIA Nos. 586-583; Wx-7241 Entry #427, p. 92, CIA #710.

936/ Ibid.

937/ MEXI 5621, Dec. 16, 1965; Wx-7241, Entry #426, dp. 92,
‘CIA $710.

938/ Memo to the Ambassador from the Legal Attache, 12/27/65,
CIA @¢578; Wx-7Tz41, Entr 429, o. 94, CIA #721.

940/ Ibid. ] OP

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42/ Winston Scott. superimposed a note ‘to Ann. Goodpasture on
this memo which read, "Can we send in a report to Head-
quarters ‘dismissing’ ou: cable? Goodpasture responded,
Dene." The cable Winstoi Scott wanted dismissed was
MEXI 5621 which reported that station was "following up"
and cabling results. Th: new cable was written and
sent on December 29, 1965; see text. .

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' 5741, CIA #575; Wx-7241. Entry #430, p. 94, CIA #721.

950/ Note from Ann Goodpasture <o Mexico City Station, Cuban Sec- \
tion, 2/3/66, CIA No. 57); Wx-7241, Entry 428, p. 94, ©
CIA #721. |

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951/ Ibid.

952/ Ibid. HSCA Staff ‘Summary | of CIA Files on LITAMIL~7 and LATIMIL-9.

953/ See Section Ti,,A, 3 above.

54/ Classified Summary of Staf: Review of CIA Documents, un-
: dated, P. 3, CIA $763.

955/ Mesac from Lecat to Ambassaicr, 2/23/66, CIA #571; Wx-7241,
Entry 2455, ‘?P. 95, CIA #7 22. .

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58/ Ibid.; see also 12/25/65 Tiomas memo for corroboration,

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59/ Memo. from Legat to Winston Scott, 10/13/66, CIA No. 564;
Wx-7241, Entry #466, p. 938, CIA #725; Thomas ' 7/13/66
memo.

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962/ Memo - of Conversation by Caarles Thomas, 12/25/85, p. 3,
CIA #582. JFK Doc. #011684.

963/ Wx-7241, Entry #466, Pp. 98, CIA #725..

964/ "Selected out” is a ‘phrase used when an: officer is retired
after having been in one grade for the maximum period
of time and is not consiiered qualified for. promotion
toa higher ° grade. -

965/ State Department: Letter fcom Charles Thomas to William
Rogers, Secretary/State, July 25, 1969.JFK Doc. #011684.

966/ Ibid.

967/ Deputy Chief of Mission, Szate Department, Chief of Affairs |
; at the time of President Kennedy's assassination and sub-
sequent Oswald investigacion.

968/ Letter from ‘Charles Thomas to William Rogers, Secretary .
. of State, July 25, 1969. JFK Doc. #011684.

969/ Ibid.
-.970/ FBI Report, 9/30/69, ov. 3-4, JFK Doc. #011684. —
971/ Ibid. .

—S72/ Letter rom Charies Thomas +o William Rogers, Secretary
of Stace, July, 25, 1969. GFK Dec. #011684.

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97 6/ FBI Report, 5/30/69, p..4. JFK Doc. # 011684.

979/ Supra, p.
980/ Supra, p.
981/ Supra, p.

/ Letter HSCA to Mexican Gov 2rment, , . JFK Document,
‘ No. _

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983/ See Mexico City Procedural Wirte-up.Trip I.
984/ Ibid.

985/ Ibid.

986/ Ibid.

287/ See HSCA Stati Interview of Betty SerratOs, 6/6/78, p. 6,
JFK Document. No. 013392 ; HSCA Staff Interview of Lydia
Duran, 6/5/78, p. 6, JFK Document No. 011681; HSCA
Staff Interview of Horatio Duran Navarro, 6/5/78, p. 25,
JFK Document No. 011683; HSCA Staff Interview of Ruben
Duran, 6/5/78, p. 16, 3K Document No. 011680

wo

88/ HSCA Staff Interview of Siivia Tirado’ Duran 6/6/78, p- 90,
JFK Dccumen® No. 012775.

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#011775, p.; 54 : HSCA.. Staff pre-interview. of Lydia Duran
(6/5/18 7- _ ar) HSCA Staff pre-
‘ Interview of Betty Serre tos, 6/6/78, om
3; HSC?. Staff Interview of Horatio .
Duran Navarro, 6/5/68, CFK Document. # 011683, p. 9 + HSCA
Staff pre~interview of Ruben Duran, 5/31/78 -

990/ Letter from HSCA to CIA, 7

991/ Letter from CIA. to HSCA.

-992/ See Procedural Write-up Trip 2, Mexico City.

993/ Ibid.

994/ HSCA Staff Review of June Cobb Sharp file at CIA Head-
quarters.

995/ Supra, p.
996/ See Procedural Weite-up Mexico City Trip 2.
997/ HSCA Staff Review of Manue 1 Calvillo file,

998/ See procedural write-up Trip 2, Mexico city and Section .
VII, C, below.

999/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 7/7/78, JFK Document No. 10016; .
1000/ Ibid. —_

1003/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 7/7/78, JFK Document. No. 013486.
1002/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 7/14/78, JFK Document No. 9950.
1603/- Ibid. . . .

1004/.HSCA Staff Contact Report, 8/31/78, JER Doc. # 013487.
1008/ Ibid. .

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HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/5/78, JFK. Document No. 011268.
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Letter to Elena Garro from Committee, 9/6/78, JFK Document.

No. 011383; see also, HS°A Staff Contact Report, 9/5/78,
JFK Document No. 011268. . . :

HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/7/78, JFK Document No. 011345.
Ibid. |
Ibid.

HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/15/78, JFK Document # 013488.
HSCA Staff Contact Report, ++ JFK Document #
UNAM - Universided Naciona. Autonoma:de Mexico

American Embassy Incoming ‘‘elegram # A-43-570, p. 110,
CIA #737. —_ ;

Ibid.

ibid.
ibid.

Letter to Wesley D. Bowles, Chief of Mexican Political
Affairs, Office of Mexic:n Affairs, Department of State
from B. J. Ruyle, Americin Consul, Tampico, 5/11/67;
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1026/ Ibid.
1027/ Ibid.

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1028/ Ibid.
7 Ibid.
Ibid.

The ..Committee could not determine when the State Depart-
ment forwarded the letter to the CIA.

Dispatch from the Director to Mexico City, 6/14/67, HMMW
15557; Wx-7241, Entry #616, p. 117, CIA #744.

Ibid.’
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.

Cable from Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 1950, 6/29/67,.
Wx 7241, Entry #622, ‘P- 118, CIA #745.

El Sol is a newspaper, “The Sun.

Cable from Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 1950, 6/29/67;
Wx-7241, entry #622, p. 118, #745.

When Contreras was asked to identify the other four indi-.
viduals who had met Lee Harvey Oswald, he refused to .
reveal their names becai:se he feared that informing on
them might endanger his family.

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Wx-7241, entry #622, Pe 118, CIA #745. .

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1044/ Ibid.
1045/ Ibid.

1046/ Ibid.

Wx-7241, Entry 626, p.'119, CIA #746.

(2048/ Ibid.

1049/ Cable from Mexico city. to the Director, 7/5/67, MEXI 1991;
Wx-7241, Entry 627, p. 119, CIA #746.

2050/ Memo to Legat, 7/5/67 from Chief of Station; Wx-7241,
_ entry 628, p. 119, CIA #746.

. 1051/ Memo from JKB re Oscar Contreras, 7/10/67, Wx-7241, Entry
#634, p. 120, CIA #747.

1052/ Ibid.

1053/ The leaders of the group | ware Victor Manuel Barcelo, Carlos
Andaluz, Hugo Castro Aranda, Antonio. Tenario Adam, Jose
Guerrero Guerrero, Carlos Ortiz Fejeda, Daniel Molina,
Brion Balvez, Humberto Hiriarte, Oscar Gonzales, Hibam
Garcia, Pedro Sainz Zepeja, Alberto Cerecer, Jose Eduardo
Pascual, Juan Saldana, Martin Reyes Baissadel, Vicente
Lvillamar,. Rubelio Fernaadez Durado and Jesus Ochoa.

1054/ | Memo from JKB re Oscar Contreras, 7/10/67; Wx-7241,- Entry
: #634, p. 120, CIA #747.

21055/ Ibid.

Wx-7241, Entry #635, P- 121, CIA #7486.

g - -1056/ Dispatch from-Mexico City to Director, HMMA 32497, 7/11/67;

1057/ Dispatch from the Director to Mexico City, 6/14/67, HMM
15557; Wx-7241, Entry #616, Pp. 117, CIA a744,

1058/ Cable from Mexicc- City to the Direct or, MEXI 1950, 6/29/67:
Wx-7241, entry #622, p. (}

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1059/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, 1/5/67, MEXI
1991; Wx7241, Entry 627, p. 119, CIA #746.

1060/ See Section VI, Cc.
1061/ See Section VI, D, above.

1062/ See Warren Commission Repcrt, pp. 299-304, 733-736; also,
' Section I, B,-.VC and VI A above. Some of the more prominent
are Paul Hoch and Peter Dale Scott ‘in the Assassination in in
Dallas and Beyond and A. T. Weberman in Coup d etat in Ame: Coup d etat in America.

1063/ See Sections VC, VIA and B respectively.
‘1064/ Ibid.

1065/ Silvia Duran.

Ruiz Perez, Nilo Otero, Maria Teresa Proenza y Proenza.

' 1067/ Noe W. Palomares, Pedro Grtierrez valencia, Silvia Duran,
Horacio Duran, Ruben Duran, Lydia Duran, Betty Serratos,
Ernesto Lehfeld Miller.

1068/ See Glossary.

1069/ The ‘Handwriting ‘Panel conc luded that the signature on the
} visa application was identical to other: Samples of Lee
Harvey Oswald's handwriting.

2070/ ESCA Interview of Silvia furan, 6/6/78, JFK Document 011775.
Consul Azcue stated that standard operating procedure at the
Cuban Consulate did not allow applications to be removed

‘from the office. (HSCA Public Testimony of Eusebio Azcue,
9/18/78, p. 41) © .

1071/ Ibid., pp. 31-33.

/1072/ See Sections II C, IIT A? and ITI B 2 above.

1073/ See. Section III B 2 abcve.

1074/ Ibid. |

1075/ CIA Electronic Surveillance transcript from Soviet Embassy,

9/27/63.
aa/ Classificaties

1066/.Eusebio Azcue Lopez, Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, Orestes Guillermo

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1076/ Ibid.

1077/ Ibid.

1078/ Ibid.

1079/ CIA Electronic Surveillanc2 transcript from Soviet Embassy,
9/28/63.

1080/ Ibid.
1081/ Ibid.
1082/ Tbid.

1083/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-
Ment No. 011775, p. 19.

1084/ Ibid., pp. 20-23.
1085/ SCA Public Testimony of Eisebio Azcue, 9/18/78, p. 36.

1086/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document
#011775, p. 23.

. 1087/ HSCA Public Testimony of Eisebio Azcue > Lopez, 9/18/78,
p- 32-33.

1088/ See Sections VC, and. VIB above.

2089/ HSCA Staff Interview of Siivia Duran, 6/6/78, SFK Docu
ment # 011775, p. 37. a

1090/ See Supra, pe
1091/ See Sections III, Al and I‘I B above.

1092/ HSCA Staff ‘interview of Sijvia Duran, 6/6/78, cPK Document
§ 011775, P. 92-109; aisc, see Section vc fer details.

1093/ See Sections vc for detail:

1094/ HSCA Public Testimony of Eusebio Azcue Lopez 9,/18/78, p. 51.

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1095/ See Section VI C above and VII B below.

1096/ See Section III Al above. Telephone taps.

1097/ HSCA Staff Interview of Si! ivia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-
Ment No. 011775, p. °44

1098/: The CIA's classification 0: the transcript of this conver-
Sation prevented the HSC: from directly confronting
Ms. Duran with the infornation.

1099/ See Sections II, c, 3, 4 and III Al above.

1100/ CIA Electronic ‘Surveillance: ‘transcript of Soviet Embassy,
9/28/63. a

1101/ Ibid., October 1, 1963.
1102/ Ibid. .
1103/ Ibid. le

' 1104/ See Section Iv, B above.
1105/ Ibid.

1106/ BSCA Public Testimony of Murina Oswald, + Warren Com-

mission Testimony of Geoi1ge DeMorenschildt. Warren Com-
mission Testimony of Geoige Boule.

(1107/ CIA Electronic Surveillance. of Soviet Embassy, 9/27/63.

1108/ Ibid.
1109/ Ibid.
2110/ Ibid.
1iil/ tia.

2112/ The caller saié dessa.

1113/ Warren Comission Report, f. 391. | - §00

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1115/ Ibid.
1116/ Ibid.

1117/ ‘HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu- —
ment No. 011775, p. 31.

.1118/ HSCA Public Testimony of Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, 9/18/78,
p. 119.

1119/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JEK Document
011775, Pp 23.

1120/ Ibid., p. 31.

1121/ Ibid.
1122/ Ibid.

1123/ HSCA Public Testimony of Alfredo ‘Mirabal Diaz, 9/18/78,
p- 119... |

_1124/ CIA Blectronic Surveillane: of Soviet Embassy, 9/27/63.
2125/ Ibid.
2126/ Ibid.

1127/ Ibid.; also HSCA Staff interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78,
“JFK Document No. 011775. p. 41.

1128/ Ibid.

1129/ Warren Commission Testinon’ of. Nelson Delgado, Vol. III,
=. 236-237. |

215907 ‘Warren Commission Testimon:, of Pamela Mumford, 5/19/64,
" ¥ol. II, p.. 2137; Warren ‘ommission Tastimonyv of Evaristo
Rodriguez, 7/21/64, Vil. II. 3. 34, CE 2126, Pe 7;
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1132/ See Section VI C, above.
1133/ See Section VI D, above.

1134/ See Section VII D,. above.

1135/ See Sections III,A-1 and III B 2.

1136/ Ibid.

1137/ Warren Commission Report, p.- 301.

1138/ A night when ‘Oswald's activities are not known.

1139/ HSCA Staff -pre-interview of Ruban Duran, 3/31/78, ‘No. 021680,
p. 54; HSCA Staff Pre-interview of Lydia Duran, 6/5/78,

HSCA Staff Interview of - -Foracio Duran, 6/5/78, JFK’ Document.
No. 011683 p. 9; HSCA Stz ff Pre-Interview of Betty Serratos,
6/1/78, HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78,

JFK Document No. 0227784 Pp. 54.

1140/ HSCA Staff Interview of S:lvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-
ment No. 022775, p.9l.

1141/ Ibid.

1142/ HSCA Staff Interview of Ruben Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu- -

-Ment No.011680 , p. HSCA Staff Interview of
Lydia Duran, 6/ 5/78, J!'K Document No. 011681, p. ?
HSCA Staff Interview of Horacio Duran, 6/_5/78, JFK Do-
cumént No.011683, Pp. - HSCA Staff Interview of -

Betty Serratos, 6/6-/78. JFK Document No. 613392.

1143/ See Section VI,.C, above.

il44/ HSCA Staff Pre-interview uf Ruben Duran, 5/31/78.

1i45/ HSCA Puslic Testimony of itusebio Azcue Lopez, p. 84-85.-
| So gts ig iy Sed ad PO ee
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See Section VI, C, ; above.

See Section VI, A 2 above

HSCA Staff Interview of $:.lvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-
' ment No. 011775 , Pp. ‘81.

-Ibid., p.87=88.

HSCA Staff Review of LITANIL 9 file.

HSCA Staff Review of CIA jilvia Duran file,

See Appendix 3.

Ibid:

ibid:

See Section VI, ¢c 10 abov>.

See Section VI, C, above.

See Section vi, C, above.

See Secticn VI, C . above. .
See Section vz, Cc . . above.

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1167/ See Appendix 3.
1168/ See Section VI, C 1 above.
1169/ See Section VI, C, ak ove,

1170/7 Letter. from Charles Thomas to William Pe Rogers, guly 25,
1969, JFK Document No. (11684 2

1171/ See Section VI,C, . zbove.
1172/ See Section VI, D above for details.

1173/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document
~~" -No. 011775, p. 95.

1174/ See Section VI, D above.

1175/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK No.
011755, p. 101-102.

1176/ See Section vI, D above.

1177/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-
ment No. 011775, p.95

1178/ See Appendices II and III.

1179/ Warren Commission Report, Pp. 305.
1280/ See Section VI C above.

1181/ See Section VII, C above.

1182/ See Section VII, B above.

1183/ See Sections VI ABC above.

See Verbatim transcript of meetings prepared by Cuban go-
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_1186/ Ibid.; see.also, HSC?. Staff Interview of Eusebio Azcue,
4/1/78,. JFK Document. No. 007005

1187/ See transcript.
1188/ Ibid.
1189/ Ibid.
1190/ Ibid.

-1191/ See HSCA Interview o1 Fidel Castro Ruz, April 3, 1978.
JFK Document # 00700¢

.1192/ Pedro Gutierrez Valercia claimed that he bumped into
Lee Harvey Oswald at. the Consulate on September 27,
1963. Valencia was at the Consulate doing a credit
check on one of the Cuban employees. .

1193/ See Section VI, D abeve for details on Oscar Contreras'
allegations.

1194/ See Section VI C for details on Elena and Elenita
; Garro' s ‘allegations. ;

1195/ Elena Garro's sister who came to the conclusion that
Lee Harvey Oswald wes at one of Ruben Duran's-twist
parties in the fall of '63. ‘

Eunice Odio reported on Elena Garro's allegations in
(1965. See Section \I, C, above.

1197/ Elena Garro reported that at one of the twist parties,
Emilio Carballido ard Eusebio Azcue had come to the —

- conclusion that Kenredy had to be assassinated. (See
also, Section VI, C, above.

1198/ Elena Garro alleged that Victor Rico Galan had claimed
that Lee Harvey Osweld had been Silvia Duran’s lover.

See also, Section vi, Cc, above. .
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1199/ Diaz-Ordaz and Echeva:ria were the two presidents of
, ; Mexico respectively trom 1964 to 1970 and 1970 to 1976.

1200/ ‘See HSCA Staff Interview of Horacio Duran, 6/5/78, JFK
Document No. 011680.

1201/ See HSCA Staff Interview of Pedro Gutierriz Valencia,
6/5/78, JFK ‘Document No. 011682.

' 1202/ Lynn Duran is the sis-er of Horatio and Ruben Duran.

a The Committee wished to ask her whether Lee Harvey
“Oswald had attended any twist parties at the Durna
homes.

See HSCA Staff Interview of Lynn Duran, 6/5/78, JFK Doc.
# 011681

1203/ See HSCA Staff Interview of Ruben Duran, 6/6/78, JFK
Doc. # 011680.

1204/ The Committee never sont the Mexican government the
questions because a 2nd trip to Mexico was arranged.

1205/ The Committee wished so ask Ms. Serratos whether Lee
Harvey Oswald had at-ended any twist parties at the

6 . Duran homes. See BS7A Staff Interview of Betty

Serratos, JFK Doc. # 011392.

1206/ See HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK
_ Document No. 011775.

1207/>panny Flores was one >f AMMUG's (a Cuban DGl Defector in
1964) Security Officzrs. The Committee wished to
ask Mr. Plores about AMMUG's statements about: Lee
Harvey Oswald's Trip to the Cuban Consulate.

1208/ Ramon Alvarez Dupont vas a CIA agent in charge of
picking up the photographic surveillance film from
perscnnel stationed 2t the three bases anc delivering

it to his brother-in-law (unknown) and later delivering —
it to his case offic2r Ann Goodpasture.

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8/8/78.

Oscar Contreras Lartiiue claimed that he met Oswald
in Mexico City in the fall ‘of 1963. See Section
VI, D above. ;

Elena claimed that. when she told Noe W. Palomares about
meeting Lee Harvey Oswald, he advised her to send an
anonymous letter to ''exas, explaining her account.
The Committee wished to. question. Mr. Palomares about
Elena's credibility.

LICHANT I is Manuel Calvillo. See Section VI, Cc
for details and sign:.ficance.

LICOOKIE I is June Cobb Sharp. See Section Iv, c
for details. \ ;

LITAMIL 7 is Consuelo Esperon, a CIA penetrator agent
working as a secretai-y at the Cuban Embassy. The
Committee wished to ask Ms. Esperon about commentary
after the assassinat: on at the Cuban Embassy about .
both Lee Harvey and ‘ohn F. Kennedy's assassination.

Litamil 9 was Luis Alberue Suoto, a CIA penetration
agent at the Cuban Embassy. The Committee wished to
question Mr. Alberue about the Cuban Embassy employees
reactions to the assassination. The Committee also
wished to question M:. Alberue about Silvia Duran
and his knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald.

LIRING 3 was a Cuban- citizen, Carlos Jurado Delmar who
was a source for the CIA. He had reported that Silvia
Duran had told him that she had had an affair with
Lee Harvey Oswald. “he Committee wished to question
“him about Silvia Durin.

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General Jesus ‘Jose Ca:.rk Flores escorted Ruben Duran

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to Russia in 1962 anil was considered by many to be
Duran's protector. jlso, Elena claimed that Flores
was at the party thai: she stated Lee Harvey Oswald
was in attendance. ‘'he Committee wished to ask

Mr. Clark Flores about all the: above.

Ernesto Lehfeld Mille): is a Mexican citizen that
resembled Eusebio Azc:ue's description of the man
that allegedly visite:d the Cuban Consulate.

Silvia said that Mil!.er was a close friend and
borrowed Horatio's cir often.

See House Select Comm.ttee on Assassinations: Staff
Write-Up of Noe W. Pulomares, 8/10/78.

See “HSCA ; ‘Staff write-.p of interview with Ernesto
‘Lehfeld Miller, 8/11,"78.

In 1963 Nilo Otero as an official in the Cuban
governménts Ministry of Foreign Relations, interviewed
Eusebio Azcue about lee Harvey Oswald's visits to the
Cuban Consulate. . .

In 1963 the Cuban government employed Rogelio Rodriguez
at the Cuban Embassy. The Committee wished to interview
Mr. Rodriguez about jee Harvey Oswald's visits to

-the Cuban Embassy employees! reactions to the Kennedy |
assassination.

Rolando Cubela, knewn as AMLASH, was prominent in the
Senate Select Committee's Book V which reported the
possibility that the Central Intelligence Agency's
attempts to assassinite Cuban President Fidel Castro
provoked the Cuban government to orchestrate the
assassination of President Kennedy in retaliation.

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1225/ In 1963 the Cuban gov:rnment employed Orestes

Guillermo Ruiz Perez at the Cuban Embassy. The.
Committee wished to interview Mr. Rodriguez about
Lee Harvey Oswald's sisits to the Cuban Consulate
and about the Cuban imbassy employees’ reactions
to the Kennedy assassination. In addition, Mr. Ruiz
is the cousin-in-law of one of the most active
anti-Castroites, Antonio Veciana Blanch.

1226/ Griselle Rubio claimei in a letter Dec. 1963 to DRI
. that Ruby had been ia Cuba in ‘1962 or 1963 visiting
Solomon Pratkins. Tie Committee located and .
‘interviewed Ms. Rubi> in Miami.

1127/ “James Wilcott is an ex-CIA employee who appeared ;
voluntarily in August 1978 at the Cuban Government's .-
Tribunal which accus2d the CIA of complicity in the f

John F. Kennedy assassination. ,

1228/ “Philip. Agee is an ex-CIA employee who appeared voluntarily
in August 1978 at the Cuban government’ s Tribunal
- which accused the CIA of complicity inthe John F..
Kennedy assassination.

1229/ The Tribunal, held in August 1978 was an effort by the.
Cuban government to accuse the CIA of complicity in
the John F. Kennedy assassination. Ex CIA agents,
James Wilcott and Phillip Agee testified at the
.Tribunal along with ex-Cuban Consul in Mexico,
Eusebio aAzcue.

1230/ See HSCA. Interview of Juan Nilo otero, 9/25/78, JFK
: Document No. .

1231/ Alfredo Mirabal Diaz assumed the Consul position,
in'the Cuban governnent's- Mexico City Consulate
on Sevtenber 2, 196: Ee was present during all
oF Oswald's visits to the consulate. Also, see
HSCA interview of Ai freco Mirakbal Diaz, 5/26/78 — JFK
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The Committee wished to question Mr. Verdacia about
the identities of the organized crime figures
detained in Trescornia at the inception of the
Cuban revolutionary government.

HSCA Interview of Jose Verdacia Verdacia, (8/26/78,

JFK Doc. # 012224.

See HSCA Interview of Orestes Guillermo Ruiz Perez,
8/27/78, JFK Doc. ¢ ; .

See HSCA Interview of Rolando Cubela Secades, 8/28/78,
JFK Document # .

In 1963 the Cuban government employed Maria Teresa.
Proenza y Proenza at the Cuban Embassy. The Committee
wished to interview Ms. Proenza about Lee Harvey Oswald's
visits to the Cuban Consulate and about the Cuban
Embassy employees’. reactions to the assassination of
John F. Kennedy... Also, See HSCA Interview of Maria
Teresa Proenza Y Preenza, 8/28/78, JFK Doc. #.

See Verbatim transcript of 8/28/78 session.
JFK Doc. # 012208

-In 1963, Manvel Pifliero, Chief of the Ministry of

Foreign Relations, ‘.nterviewed Eusebio Azcue about
Lee Harvey Oswald's visits to the Cuban Consulate.
‘In a-dition, Mr. Piliiero was the Cuban revolutionary
government official who met with Santo Trafficante

and gave him 24 hous to leave the country.

In 1963 the Cuban government employed Luisa Calderon
Carralero at the Cuban Embassy. The Committee wished
to interview Ms. Proenza about Lee Harvey Oswald's
visits to the Cuban Consulate and about the Cuban .
Embassy employees' -‘eactions to the assassination

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